Bowmore Sandstone Group
Bowmore Sandstone Group | |
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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 |
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
- ^ McAteer C.A.; Daly J.S.; Flowerdew M.J. & Whitehouse M.J. (2010). "Dalradian Grampian Group affinity for the Bowmore Sandstone Group, Islay". Scottish Journal of Geology. 46: 97–111. doi:10.1144/0036-9276/01-408. S2CID 140565408.
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