For a rare, if not lucky, few days a year, Yosemite National Park's famed El Capitan granite cliff converts into what looks like an active volcano jutting 3,000 feet above the valley floor.
Finally, on October 1st, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed into law a bill creating Yosemite National Park. The cavalry was given the task of protecting the national parks. Under Captain ...
Mark Stelten has conducted research on magmatic systems since 2008 with an emphasis on geochronology and geochemistry. He has worked on a variety of volcanic and plutonic systems over the course of ...