El Capitan and Yosemite Valley. Yosemite National Park, California. n.d.
Summary
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. Index card [...]
Summary
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.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Library, Photographic Collection, Hillers, J.K. Collection. Also available in the Yosemite National Park subject album.
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