For example, take a company which paid dividends totaling $1 per share last year and whose shares currently sell for $20. Its dividend yield would be calculated as follows: The yield for the S&P 500 is reported this way.
batholith. Batholiths are complex intrusive bodies composed of plutonic igneous rocks, usually of felsic or intermediate rock-types, such as granite, quartz monzonite, or diorite. Batholiths are also called granite domes.
Spheroidal weathering produces boulder fields, and sheet-like exfoliative weathering, which is accelerated by frost wedging, creates smooth structures like Half Dome in the 40,000 sq km Sierra Nevada Batholith in Yosemite (upper left, right-click to enlarge).