Half Dome, Yosemite, a classic granite dome and popular rock climbing destination

Half Dome, a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.

A well-known result of this process is Half Dome, located in Yosemite Valley.

The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines.

Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.

Above and to the northeast of Half Dome is Cloud's Rest ; at 9926 feet ( 3025 m ), the highest point around Yosemite Valley.

Tenaya Creek flows southwest from Tenaya Lake and down Tenaya Canyon, finally flowing between Half Dome and North Dome before joining the Merced River.

Yosemite Falls and Half Dome in the winter

The youngest Yosemite Valley pluton is the 87 million year old Half Dome granodiorite, which makes up most of the rock at Glacier Point, the Royal Arches, and its namesake, Half Dome.

Half Dome from Glacier Point

Their glaciers were huge and covered nearly all the landmarks around Yosemite Valley except Half Dome, Eagle Peak, Sentinel Dome, and the top of El Capitan.

The parallel Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Canyon glaciers were, at their largest, 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) deep where they flowed into the Yosemite Valley near the base of Half Dome.

They also formed Cloud's Rest behind Half Dome as an arête.

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation.

Half Dome from Washburn Point, showing its profile

Half Dome is nearly as whole as it ever was.

From Washburn Point, Half Dome can be seen as a thin ridge of rock oriented northeast-southwest, with its southeast side almost as steep as its northwest side except for the very top.

Half Dome was originally called " Tis-sa-ack ," meaning Cleft Rock in the language of the local Native Americans.

The face seen in Half Dome is supposed to be hers.

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