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Yosemite National Park, California. Half Dome Granodiorite contains large, well-formed hornblende crystals. Figure 11-A, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1595.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Weather pans (or pits) formed on the summit of North Dome, high above Yosemite Valley. Neighboring pans coalesce as a result of progressive expansion at the expense of intermediate partitions. Photo by U.S. National Park Service. Figure 45, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1595.
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Yosemite National Park, California. View down Yosemite Valley from Taft Point. Cathedral Rocks in the center. Entrance to Merced Gorge beyond. 1913.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Mount Clark, from the west wall of north cirque. Old cirque in the sunlight at the right. 1913.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Mariposa beds, below Pleasant Valley. 1913. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 160, Plate 26-B. 1930.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Hornblende gabbro from Oak Flat Road on the rockslides. Facies with irregular hornblende. January 1923. Spec. 14-C-7.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Glaciated rock west of the Tuolumne River, showing joints on stoss and lee sides and absence of shells. 1913.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Lower end of Yosemite Valley from Oak Flat Road. 1915. Published in U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 160, Plate 16-A. 1930.
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Album caption: Overhanging rock at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, March 7, 1915, photographer unknown (G.E.M.) Handwritten notes on album caption: Yosemite quad., Mariposa County. No index card.
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Album caption: Tuolumne River, California, view of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, photograph taken by J.G. Staack, topographer, spring of 1912 while making profile survey. Handwritten notes on album caption: Yosemite quad Calif. Yosemite National Park, Tuolumne County. No index card Note on photograph: Negative destroyed by authority of administrative geologist, July 20, 1916.
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Album caption: Cathedral spires in Yosemite Valley. [Yosemite National Park] California. n.d. (Very poor negative) Yosemite National Park subject album handwritten caption: Catherdral Spires. (Poor negative, see Hillers, J.K. 28b (q). Yosemite National Park, Marion County, California. See also cardboard mount. Index card unavailable.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Dike of Cathedral Granite in porphyritic Half Dome Granite near Sunrise Mountain. 1913.
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Yosemite National Park, California. Bold exposure of unjointed Half Dome Granodiorite (in sun) capped by mostly well-jointed tonalite (in shade) making up Glacier Point. The contact between the two rock types angles upward to the left. Figure 38, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1595.
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Album caption: El Capitan, and the valley bottom. The 3,000-foot cliff is the highest in Yosemite Valley and one of the highest in the world. The salient is composed throughout of unfractured, massive granite. The gray blotches on the wall at the right are due to masses of diorite that invaded the granite. A pine tree about 100-feet high stands in a niche with an overhanging roof a short distance above the bushy slope at the base. Yosemite Valley. [Yosemite National Park] California. n.d. Published as plate 17 in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 160. 1930. Yosemite National Park subject album handwritten caption: El Capitan looking west, Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California....
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Yosemite National Park, California. Cascade Cliffs and Little Yosemite Valley. In few other places in the Yosemite region is the granite more continuously massive than in the Cascade Cliffs. Only one horizontal master joint divides the rock (in the lower left.) The scales on the cliffs are merely surficial features due to exfoliation. The dark streaks indicate the paths followed by the ribbon cascades which descend from the upland in the spring, when the snow is melting, and from which the cliffs take their name. In the background is Sugar Loaf (Bunnell Point). Circa 1914. Plate 45-A, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 160. Note: The Francois E. Matthes' papers and field notebooks are housed in the Brancroft...
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Album caption: Yosemite Valley, California, with topographic map of the identical area, Half Dome in center. Handwritten notes on album caption: Yosemite National Park, Yosemite quad, Mariposa County; also in San Francisco Exposition no. 15. Geologists at Work subject album caption: Yosemite Valley, California, with topographic map of the identical area, Half Dome in centre. Yosemite quadrangle. No index card.
map background search result map search result map Mount Hoffman from Illilouette Ridge, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Mount Clark, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Mountain southwest of Rafferty Peak, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Cathedral spires in Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. n.d. El Capitan and Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. n.d. Yosemite National Park, California. Half Dome Granodiorite contains large, well-formed hornblende crystals. Yosemite National Park, California. Weather pans (or pits) formed on the summit of North Dome, high above Yosemite Valley. A composite image: the top half is Half Dome; the bottom is the corresponding section of a topographic map. Yosemite National Park, California. View of Hetch Hetchy Valley, California. 1912. Unidentified human on overhanging rock at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California. 1915. Mount Hoffman from Illilouette Ridge, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Mount Clark, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Mountain southwest of Rafferty Peak, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California. 1913. Cathedral spires in Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. n.d. El Capitan and Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. n.d. Yosemite National Park, California. Half Dome Granodiorite contains large, well-formed hornblende crystals. Yosemite National Park, California. Weather pans (or pits) formed on the summit of North Dome, high above Yosemite Valley. Unidentified human on overhanging rock at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California. 1915. A composite image: the top half is Half Dome; the bottom is the corresponding section of a topographic map. Yosemite National Park, California. View of Hetch Hetchy Valley, California. 1912.