Yosemite Falls - A Landscape
by James C Richardson
Title
Yosemite Falls - A Landscape
Artist
James C Richardson
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This landscape photograph was made of Yosemite Falls in the National Park of the USA. Yosemite is an American national park in California and is surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest and covers an area of 759,620 acres.
The park has an elevation range from 2,127 to 13,114 feet and contains five major vegetation zones: chaparral and oak woodland, lower montane forest, upper montane forest, subalpine zone, and alpine. Of California's 7,000 plant species, approximately 50% occur in the Sierra Nevada and more than 20% are within Yosemite.
Almost all of the landforms in the Yosemite area are cut from the granitic rock of the Sierra Nevada Batholith (a batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock that formed deep below the surface.)
Yosemite Valley represents only one percent of the park area, but this is where most visitors arrive and stay. The Tunnel View is the first view of the Valley for many visitors and is extensively photographed. El Capitan, a prominent granite cliff that looms over Yosemite Valley, is one of the most popular rock-climbing destinations in the world because of its diverse range of climbing routes in addition to its year-round accessibility.
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August 11th, 2019
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