Half Dome from Olmsted Point

This is the view of the granite rock monolith Half Dome, as seen from Olmsted Point along Tioga Pass Road. Olmsted Point lies near the top of Tenaya Canyon which extends miles downhill to the edge of Yosemite Valley and the base of Half Dome. The sheer vertical cliffs on the face of Half Dome were caused by a geological process called glaciation. However, it the case of Yosemite National Park's most famous landmark, the face of Half Dome wasn't polished flat by a passing glacier, but rather the movement of the glacier caused the rock to split like a broken marble. The granite formation known as Half Dome, along with many other granite rock domes are part of a vast geological formation called a batholith that runs through the Sierra Nevada. Where the ancient molten rock formed granite bubbles underground and then rose with the mountains, those bubble became what's called a pluton. Half Dome is the most famous pluton in the world.

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