A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park, USA |
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| Description | Tenaya Lake is the largest lake in Tuolomne Meadows, the spectacular rock and pine highland of Yosemite National Park. Tuolomne is especially well known for its bald rock domes - exposures of the Sierra Nevada Batholith - produced by a combination of glacial action and exfoliation. The batholith is a plutonic mass of rocks (mostly granodiorite) ranging in age from about 220 to 75 m.y. The batholith is actually composite, consisting of a large number of different plutons. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Mesozoic |
| Geologic province | Sierra Nevada |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ Mono. Near Lee Vining. Yosemite Valley National Park. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-05-22. |
| Collection | E121016991F. |
| Key words | Tuolomne, Yosemite, granodiorite, dome, batholith, Tenaya Lake |
| Tech details | 457 KB. Vista. |
| GeoDIL number | 545 |
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