List of Slides for Great Smoky Mountains NP

• A natural haze of mist, vapor and fog gives the Great Smoky Mountains their name.
• They are located at the southern end of the Blue Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains.
• The Visitors Center welcomes people to the park.
• Clingman's Dome is the highest point in the park at 6642 feet above sea level.
• The rock of Clingman's Dome is a resistant sandstone of late Precambrian age.
• These rocks were probably deposited on continental shelves, where submarine landslides produced graded bedding.
• Grain size changes from coarse at the bottom of graded beds to fine at the top.
• The rocks were later metamorphosed and deformed into folds such as the Ocoee Syncline.
• Logging in the early 1900s stripped forests from the sides of Clingman's Dome and other mountains in the park. This spurred concerned citizens to push for establishment of the park.
• The deformation that affected rocks of GSMNP included thrust faults, along which older rocks were pushed miles over younger rocks.
• Cade's Cove and other coves in the mountain are sheltered open valleys surrounded by ridges.
• These coves are generally oval in shape.
• Cade's Cove is a "window," a technical term explained in this poster.
• High precipitation feeds the Little River and other streams in the park. Early settlers harnessed these streams for power to turn water wheels.
• Because the coves are fertile, protected, and well-watered, they support a variety of plants, including some rare species.
• Springtime blossoms in GSMNP.
• Looking east from the Valley & Ridge province, the Smokies are visible in the distance.
• Farther west yet is the Cumberland Plateau.
• Ducktown, TN, near Chattanooga, lies southwest of GSMNP.
• Hillsides erode near Ducktown.
• Over the long term, erosion produces landscapes that are nearly all in slope (mature stage of landscape development), as in the Appalachian Plateau.