Luing
Sign in to saveLuing ( ; ) is one of the Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of around 200 people, mostly living in Cullipool, Toberonochy (Tobar Dhonnchaidh), and Blackmillbay.
Key facts
- Scottish island.Image
- LuingIsland.JPG
- Scottish island.ImageCaption
- View from near Toberonochy, Luing
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Argyll and Bute
- Scottish island.caption
- Luing shown within Argyll and Bute
- Scottish island.GridReference
- NM740100
- Scottish island.celtic name
- Luinn
- Scottish island.meaning of name
- pre-Gaelic name of unclear meaning
- Scottish island.area rank
- 40
- Scottish island.highest elevation
- Binneinn Furachail,
- Scottish island.Population
- 187
- Scottish island.population rank
- 35=
- Scottish island.main settlement
- Cullipool/Culapul
- Scottish island.island group
- Slate Islands
- Scottish island.local authority
- Argyll and Bute
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- Etymology
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Luing ( ; ) is one of the Slate Islands, Firth of Lorn, in the west of Argyll in Scotland, about south of Oban. The island has an area of and is bounded by several small skerries and islets. It has a population of around 200 people, mostly living in Cullipool, Toberonochy (Tobar Dhonnchaidh), and Blackmillbay.
== Geology == The larger part of the bedrock of Luing is provided by the Neoproterozoic age Easdale Slate Formation, a pyritic, graphitic pelite belonging to the Easdale Subgroup of the Dalradian Argyll Group. Thin bands of quartzite are also present. Zones of metamorphosed intrusive igneous rocks occur within the northeast of the island. Luing is cut by NE-SW aligned Siluro-Devonian felsite dykes and by numerous later NW-SE aligned basalt and microgabbro dykes which form a part of the ‘Mull Swarm’ which is of early Palaeogene age. Raised marine deposits of sand and gravel occur widely around the margins of the island, a legacy of late Quaternary changes in relative sea-level.