Blue Ridge province - The Geology of Virginia
 
    

C H I L H O W E E   S A N D S T O N E

Well-cemented quartz sandstone of the lower Cambrian Antietam
Formation (Chilhowee Group). Note: Skolithos tubes (parallel to
knife), trace fossils left by a worm-like creature that burrowed in the sand.

 
    

APPALACHIAN PLATEAU | VALLEY & RIDGE | BLUE RIDGE | PIEDMONT | COASTAL PLAIN
 

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