Bowmore Sandstone Group

Bowmore Sandstone Group
Stratigraphic range: Neoproterozoic

Laggan Formation at Eilean Mhic Ghoile, near Bowmore, Islay
Type Group
Sub-units Laggan Formation, Blackrock Formation
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Shale, siltstone
Location
Region Inner Hebrides
Type section
Named for Bowmore
Geological map of Islay

The Bowmore Sandstone Group is a sequence of metasedimentary rocks, dominantly sandstones, of probable Neoproterozoic age. Their outcrop on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides is entirely fault-bounded, between the Loch Gruinart Fault to the west and the Loch Skerrols Shear Zone to the east.[1]

References

  1. McAteer C.A., Daly J.S., Flowerdew M.J. & Whitehouse M.J. (2010). "Dalradian Grampian Group affinity for the Bowmore Sandstone Group, Islay" (PDF). Scottish Journal of Geology 46: 97–111. doi:10.1144/0036-9276/01-408.
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