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Yosemite National Park
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Today, we talk about the geology of Yosemite National Park. Specifically, we dive into 4 different aspects:
1- What's the story behind all this granite?
2- Why do these mountains look the way they do? Glaciers
3- What are all the cracks in the granite about?
4- Rockfall!
The formation of granite is taught in a very traditional way. Magma intrudes deep inside the Earth and then cools slowly as the minerals grow larger. Jesse says that's a very debatable and a hotly researched area…
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