Named for Bow | Other Shale, siltstone Primary Sandstone | |
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.
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