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XVII.—The Geology of Gigha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

W. J. McCallien
W. J. McCallien
Affiliation:
Assistant in Geology, Glasgow University.
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Gigha is a little-visited island off the western coast of Kintyre and between the latter and the island of Islay. It lies about 5¼ miles south-west of West Loch Tarbert, and a little over 1½ miles from the nearest point of Kintyre where the mainland runs out for 1½ miles in the low, sandy, raised beach of Runahaorine (figs. 1 and 10).

The island is 6 miles in length from north-east to south-west, and has a greatest breadth of 2 miles. All round it are innumerable smaller isles, all elongated in the same direction as Gigha. Of these the most important are Cara, 1 mile from north-east to south-west by ½ mile in breadth, and Gigalum, ½ mile by ⅕ mile, and Craro, which is smaller still (figs. 2 and 10). The island forming Ardminish Point, on the eastern coast of Gigha, and Eilean Garbh, at the north-eastern end, will be dealt with here as if they were part of the main island, since at low tide they are connected with it by sandy isthmuses.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , 1927 , pp. 395 - 409
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1927

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page 398 note * Q.J.G.S., lxxviii, pt. 2.

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