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Bowmore Sandstone Group

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Type
  
Group

Region
  
Inner Hebrides

Named for
  
Bow

Other
  
Shale, siltstone

Primary
  
Sandstone

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Sub-units
  
Laggan Formation, Blackrock Formation

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.

References

Bowmore Sandstone Group Wikipedia