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Yosemite Falls

waterfalls, California, United States
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Yosemite Falls, magnificent series of snow-fed waterfalls in Yosemite National Park, east-central California, U.S., near Yosemite Village. They were formed by creeks tumbling into the Yosemite Valley over the edges of hanging tributary valleys (which eroded more slowly than the glacial- and river-carved Yosemite Valley and were left “hanging” above it) into the Merced River below. Yosemite Falls consists of three drops, this configuration caused by the interruption of the vertical joints (cracks in the...

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