Hampshire Group Explained

Hampshire Formation
Type:	Formation
Age:	Famennian^[1]
Period:	Late Devonian
Region:	Appalachia and Southeastern United States
Country:	United States
Underlies:	Price Formation and Rockwell Formation
Overlies:	Foreknobs Formation and Greenland Gap Group
Extent:	Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

The Hampshire Formation is a geologic formation in West Virginia, USA. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in West Virginia

References

• Web site: Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database)). 17 December 2021. 25 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home. dead.

Notes and References

1. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19078 Paleozoic Sedimentary Successions of the Virginia Valley & Ridge and Plateau