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 figures prominently on the reverse side of the California state quarter.

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.

Half or more of the trench is filled with " green " ( unfired ) bricks which are stacked in an open lattice pattern to allow airflow.

Half of Pune is submerged, more than 100, 000 families need to be relocated and the death tally exceeds 2, 000.

The Half Kaddish is used to punctuate divisions within the service: for example, before Barekhu, between the Shema and the Amidah and following readings from the Torah.

Half a manatee's day is spent sleeping in the water, surfacing for air regularly at intervals no greater than 20 minutes.

The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen or " Half Moon ", captained by Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Holland's stadholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

A more elaborate example is HLROM ( Half Left to Right, Ones to Memory ), which takes the Left half of the register contents, places them in the Right half of the memory location, and replaces the left half of the memory location with Ones.

Half the increase in bone density ( measured by X-ray densitometry ) is attributed to the higher atomic weight of Sr compared with calcium, whereas the other half a true increase in bone mass.

Half a century later Rav Saadia Gaon, also of Sura, composed a siddur, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

Theodore " Ted "/" Half Ted " Raimi ( born December 14, 1963 ) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O ' Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess / Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.

* Half of the Limburg province of Belgium is added to the Netherlands ( since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg ).

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

Kingston is served well by a modern bus system ( JUTC ), mini buses, and taxis, which operate throughout the city with major hubs at Parade, Cross Roads, Half Way Tree and elsewhere.

The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

The foremost separate road running event is the annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ( formerly World Road Running Championships ).

* Garry's Mod ( Half Life 2 Mod )-The Physics Gun is used in the sandbox game to build using props by freezing them in mid-air with an adjustable distance tractor beam

Half of the campaign goal is intended for the endowment to provide long-lasting support for faculty, students and breakthrough innovations.

In the Bay Area, for example, the average maximum temperature in July is about at Half Moon Bay on the coast, at Walnut Creek only inland, and at Tracy, just inland.

* Half, also called float16, a 16-bit floating point value.

He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films.

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

* Half loop ( also known as a " Euler " or " Thoren "), a full-rotation jump with a loop entry but landed on the back inside edge of the opposite foot.

* Half axel ( also known as a " Bell jump "), a one-rotation jump with an axel entry and a forward landing.

It was on one of his return visits to the UK in 1968 that he also brought back the late Tony Hancock's ashes to the UK in an Air France bag-“ My session with the Customs was a Hancock Half Hour in itself.

He also appeared as a guest star in one episode of Two and a Half Men playing the father of Charlie's neighbor Rose ( Melanie Lynskey ), and another as guest star Denise Richards ' father ; at the time that episode aired, Richards was still married to Charlie.

Half of them also indicated that CEOs counted on them to challenge the company ’ s strategy.

During the eight-year run of Terry and June, Whitfield also appeared in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Minder.

This shorter course, also known as a Half Ironman, consists of a swim, bike ride, and run.

Races that are not officially " Ironman " race are also referred to as Iron distance and Half Iron distance ( unofficially ).

At the same time, the BBC was also running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock, the first of a new generation of comedies based on believable characters and situations.

Half of the 1973 National Scout Jamboree ( Jamboree East ) was held at Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania, where the 1977 National Scout Jamboree and Campaganza 2010 were also held.

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

Indie rock band Pavement ( who also toured with Stereolab ) acknowledged the group's sound on their song " Half A Canyon.

A fictional town of Ludlow, Maine is also the setting of the novels and films Pet Sematary and The Dark Half by Stephen King.

The parents, supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also asked Dr. Wheaton to order the 2, 295 students in the Wyandanch schools ( 86 per cent of whom were African-American ) to be divided equally into the more affluent and predominantly white surrounding Half Hollow Hills, Deer Park, North Babylon, West Babylon and Farmingdale school districts.

Half the width of a " normal " comic, Vertical was also stapled at the top making it " twice as tall.

She has also acted on TV as a character ( not as " MC Lyte ") in such shows as In the House, Get Real, Half & Half, and The District.

The superiority of Scottish castle design also diminished ; the Half Moon battery built at Edinburgh Castle in 1574, for example, was already badly dated in continental terms by the time it was built.