The Chilhowee Group is a sedimentary body composed of early Cambrian siliciclastic sedimentary rocks which crop out along the eastern margin of the Blue Ridge province in Alabama, Maryland, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The Hampton Formation has minor economic importance in the area near the James River Face Wilderness.
Those quarries produced roofing shale, light weight aggregate, and various materials for brick making.
[3][4] In the southern Appalachians the two formations represent clastic deposition into the widening Iapetus basin.
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