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The Great Smokey Mountions

The Great Smokey Mountions. By Raylin Alusik. Location. Region-Southeast State-Tennessee Capital-Nashville Longitude-86.2272 North Latitude-35.8490 West. Landforms. Clingmans Dome The Location is in the heart of the park The Height is 6,642 feet On Appalachian Trail

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The Great Smokey Mountions

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  1. The Great Smokey Mountions By Raylin Alusik

  2. Location • Region-Southeast • State-Tennessee • Capital-Nashville • Longitude-86.2272 North • Latitude-35.8490 West

  3. Landforms Clingmans Dome • The Location is in the heart of the park • The Height is 6,642 feet • On Appalachian Trail • Highest point in the park Mount Guyot • Located in the north of park • 6,621 feet high • On Appalachian trail Rich Mount • Located in the north of park • 3,686 feet high

  4. Culture Two Different groups of people called the Great Smokey Mountains home but had opposing ideas. * Cherokee Indians • were the first people of the mountains • Lived 1212 • 800 years • forced to leave the land 1800 Early settlers came into the area in the Told the Cherokee to walk to Oklahoma

  5. Waterways • Rainbow Falls-Located in the North of the National Park. • 80 feet high • Laurel Falls-Also located in the north of the park. • 80 feet high • Abraham Falls-Located in the north of the park. • 20 feet high

  6. Rocks and Minerals • Most of the rocks in the great smoky mountains National park are sedimentary and were by accumulations of clay ,silt, sand, gravel and minor amounts of calcium carbide in flat-lying layers. • Gold-most rocks in the great smoky mount ions are sedimentary • Clay-They where formed out of clay, self, sand, gravel and minor amounts of calcium and carbonate. • Copper- the oldest rocks are 800-545 years old.

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