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Bowmore Sandstone Group

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Bowmore Sandstone Group
Stratigraphic range: Neoproterozoic
Laggan Formation at Eilean Mhic Ghoile, near Bowmore, Islay
TypeGroup
Sub-unitsLaggan Formation, Blackrock Formation
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherShale, siltstone
Location
RegionInner Hebrides
Type section
Named forBowmore
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

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  1. ^ 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.