Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — The Yosemite Valley. [ARTICLE]

The Yosemite Valley.

Geologists have determined, by unei ring fact, that the riveY did by far the most qf the work of forming the Yosemite gorge and that the great glacier which followed the water ages afterwards did little more than square its-corners and steepen its cliffs. It may have increased the depth from 700 to 1,000 feet, and more. ,During the uncountable years since the glaciers vanished erosion has again marvelously used its wonder chisel. With the lessening of the Merced's volume the effect was no longer to deepen the channel but to amazingly carve and decorate the walls.