Clingmans Dome is a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina in the southeastern United States.
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10 Facts About Clingmans Dome
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Clingmans Dome is protected as part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest which covers Clingmans Dome occurs only at the highest elevations in the southeastern United States, and has more in common with forests at northern latitudes than with the forests in the adjacent valleys.
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The forest on and around Clingmans Dome has experienced a large die-off of Fraser fir caused by the non-native insect, balsam woolly adelgid.
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Clingmans Dome is the most accessible mountain top in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Clingmans Dome is the upper terminus for several additional hiking trails, including the Forney Ridge Trail and the Forney Creek Trail .
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Mitchell contended that a peak by the name of Black Clingmans Dome was the highest, while Clingman asserted that Smoky Clingmans Dome was the true highest peak.
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Clingmans Dome is part of a geological formation known as the Copperhill Formation.
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The Lower northern flanks of Clingmans Dome are underlain by thick layers of sulfidic, quartz-garnet-muscovite phyllite and schist, which occur within the metagraywackes and metaconglomerates.
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Soils of Clingmans Dome are mostly moderately deep to shallow, well drained dark brown loam or sandy loam of strong to extreme acidity; Breakneck and Pullback series are most common.
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