Bowmore Sandstone Group Stratigraphic range: Neoproterozoic |
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Laggan Formation at Eilean Mhic Ghoile, near Bowmore, Islay
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Type | Group |
Sub-units | Laggan Formation, Blackrock Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Shale, siltstone |
Location | |
Region | Inner Hebrides |
Type section | |
Named for | Bowmore |
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.