Cathedral Range

Cathedral Range

The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the South of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, USA. It is a beautiful range, sculpted by glaciers out of granite. The tops of the peaks in the range were above the level of the highest glaciation, and are therefore uneroded and spire-like. The range is named after Cathedral Peak, which is shaped like a cathedral, because of this differential erosion.

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* [http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/geology/publications/pp/160/sec3c.htm Glacial History of the Yosemite Valley]


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