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Half-Dome, at 8,842 feet, rises 4,733 feet above its base and some 4,842 feet above the valley floor. A glacier cut through a large granite slab, forming the valley and creating and sculpting the granite peaks and domes, while coming within five hundred feet of Half-Dome's summit. Half-Dome, it seems, never had another half of a dome.
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