Editing Mount Mitchell (section)

==Description==
Mount Mitchell was formed during the Precambrian when marine deposits were metamorphosed into [[gneiss]] and [[schist]]. These [[metasedimentary]] rocks were later uplifted during the [[Alleghenian orogeny]].<ref name="Silver2003">{{cite book|author=Timothy Silver|title=Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIn6nE0QLNYC&pg=PP1|year=2003|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-5423-5}}</ref> The soils are well drained, dark brown and stony with fine-earth material ranging in texture from sandy clay loam to loam or sandy loam; Burton and Craggey are the most common series around the summit.<ref>[http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/gmap/ SoilWeb] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514215427/http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/gmap/ |date=2013-05-14 }}, University of California-Davis California Soil Resource Lab, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Accessed: 11 January 2016.</ref>