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Mount Cammerer is a mountain on the northeastern fringe of the Great Smoky Mountains, in the Southeastern United States. The mountain is situated on the state line between Cocke County, Tennessee and Haywood County, North Carolina. The Appalachian Trail traverses Cammerer's south slope and a restored fire lookout at the summit offers panoramic views of the eastern Smokies, Cocke County, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although a narrow ridge connects Mt. Cammerer to a nearby higher knob, leaving Cammerer with a very low topographic prominence, the mountain is clearly visible not only from the surrounding mountains, but from various points in the town of Cosby and along I-40 as it crosses Cocke County. Mt. Cammerer is a popular hiking destination, especially in Autumn, when the leaves of the trees in the forest around the mountain blaze red, orange and yellow for as far as the eye can see. == Geology == Mt. Cammerer is composed of Thunderhead sandstone, a type of rock common throughout the Great Smokies.〔Harry Moore, ''A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 74-75.〕 Thunderhead sandstone, part of the Ocoee Supergroup, was formed from precambrian ocean sediments approximately one billion years ago.〔Harry Moore, ''A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 32.〕 The Greenbrier Fault, which crosses the mountain's northern and eastern slopes,〔Harry Moore, ''A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 37.〕 thrust the Thunderhead sandstone over the Rich Butt sandstone during the Paleozoic era.〔 Approximately 200 million years, the North American and African plates collided in the Appalachian orogeny, thrusting the rock upward.〔Harry Moore, ''A Roadside Guide to the Geology of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park'' (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1988), 26-27.〕 One of Cammerer's key characteristics is the outcropping of contorted quartzite rock at the summit.〔Robert Mason, ''The Lure of the Great Smokies'' (Boston and New York: Houghton-Mifflen, 1927), 44.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Cammerer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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