The Machair - Underlying Rocks

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UNDERLYING ROCKS

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION > PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE

The Outer Hebrides are mainly composed of Precambrian aged metamorphic rocks

In places these rocks are cut by much younger igneous rocks

an example of folded layers in Lewisian gneiss