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Cookie Cliff Rockslide / Yosemite National Park
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1212 0262 (2012-12-04)Copyright © 2012 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Jul 4, 2010
location
Along the Merced River. Yosemite National Park (Mariposa County, California, US)notes Rockfalls and rockslides occur frequently along the steep walls of Yosemite Valley. The most recent large slide at Cookie Cliff occurred on April 3, 1982, when 300,000 tons of El Capitan Granite broke loose and wiped out more than a quarter mile of Hwy 140, blocking the road for several weeks. Some of the boulders were as large as a house.keywords: Earth Science, Geology, Geomorphology, erosion
camera Canon EOS 40D, 24 mm, f/10, 1/400 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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