The authors also suggested that the impact originally took place further east, but had been moved westward by subsequent tectonic movements.

[4] It is suspected that the Lairg site is the source of the ejecta deposits in the Stac Fada Member for a number of reasons.

The palaeocurrent direction data across the N-S extent of the member changes and always points away from the site of the gravity low.

The upper levels of target sediment were unconsolidated sand and basement felsic gneiss, according to the lithic fragments in the member.

[3] However a 2019 study disputed this based on the fact that the matrix of the Stac Fada Member had been derived from local Stoer Group sediments and the regional variation in the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, direction of compression and striations from the Stac Fada Member suggested that an impact somewhere in The Minch was more probable.