C. & F. Lindgren Photographs
Shown above is El Capitan. This is the feature from Albert B. Dickas' book 101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See (Mountain Press) . We did a one day drive through of Yosemite and, just by luck, I photographed El Capitan. This place requires days to see. Needless to say, this was only a first trip.
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We stopped at an overlook near the entrance to Yosemite. The rock was a pale grey, and had black streaks like water marks running down it. On closer examination the rock was granite! I thought it was some type of sedimentary. I was wrong. The only accurate reflectance spectrum could possibly come from the flat fragment (see below) I collected. All of the sand grain fragments were too irregular for an accurate reading.
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B. Wemyss Photograph
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