[1] The Ashe Metamorphic Suite is located in the Eastern Blue Ridge providence that extends from North Carolina up to South-Western Virginia.

[4] The Ashe Metamorphic Suite overlies the Chilhowee Group of North Carolina and Tennessee or the mesoproterozoic Blue Ridge basement complex.

[2] Depending on the metamorphic grade, the pelitic rocks can be consist of quartz, plagioclase, biotite, garnet, chlorite, staurolite, and kyanite.

The Ashe Metamorphic Suite is confined between the opening of the Iapetus sea at the beginning of the Cambrian, and the closing of the ocean by in the Early Ordovician.

[6] It was initially suggested the Ashe Metamorphic Suite was deposited on a rifted continental margin with a nonconformable contact with the underlying Cranberry Gneiss.