"Face-paint rock" is made from ground up colored siltstone found in some of the creeks in east Tennessee. The reddish color comes from iron, the black is from coal.
is located in Putnam and White counties (near Cookeville), on the western edge of the Eastern Highland Rim. The hike to Burgess Falls follows the Falling Water River. This beautiful set of cascades is called First Falls, the first of the increasing larger waterfalls. The rock in this park is made up of 2 different kinds of limestone and 2 kinds of shale. The sedimentary rocks of the Cumberland Plateau are shoreline sediments that date back to the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian ages. The silt, sand and pebbles originated in the Appalachian mountains and were eventually washed down to the lower elevations of an ancient coast.
