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Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of
The south face of the formation is popular with rock climbers and has over twenty multi-pitch slab climbs many of them easy or moderate.
Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome
Polly Dome is a prominent granite dome rising above the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. The dome, more than 3 kilometers (~2 miles) long, is a substantially intact mass of granitic rock that has withsto ...
, a granite dome
Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface. Generally, domical features such as these are known as bornhardts. Bornhardts can form in any type of plutonic rock but are typically composed o ...
on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road Tioga may refer to:
United States communities
*Tioga, California, former name of Bennettville, California
*Tioga, Colorado
*Tioga, Florida
* Tioga, Iowa
*Tioga, Louisiana
*Tioga, New York, a town in Tioga County
*Tioga County, New York, a county at ...
in the Yosemite
Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ar ...
high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated
A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...
and exfoliated granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
rock that rises steeply from the lake shore; the very steep east side of the dome is popular with rock climbers, who gave the dome its name.
The name presumably comes from the poem Kubla Khan
''Kubla Khan'' () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to ''Kubla Khan'', the poem ...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poe ...
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Climbing
The south face of the formation is popular with rock climbers and has over twenty multi-pitch slab climbs many of them easy or moderate.
References
Granite domes of Yosemite National Park Landforms of Tuolumne County, California Hills of California {{TuolumneCountyCA-geo-stub