Gualann na' Leac

Coastal Feature, Headland, Point in Inverness-shire

Scotland

Gualann na' Leac

Rubha na Leac Leac means a flat or sloping slab or rock surface, and this one must have given the name of An Leac, Beinn na Leac and Gualainn na Leac nearby. — Rubha na Leac Credit: Anne Burgess

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Gualann na' Leac Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 57.367043/-5.9964629 or Grid Reference NG5937. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Rubha na Leac

Leac means a flat or sloping slab or rock surface, and this one must have given the name of An Leac, Beinn na Leac and Gualainn na Leac nearby.

Anne Burgess

Rubha na Leac

This is the coarse Triassic conglomerate that is exposed only in a few places in Raasay. It is of the Stornoway Sandstone Formation, and was deposited in Triassic times, something like 260 million years ago.

Anne Burgess

Headland at Rubha na Leac

This is a deeply frustrating view. The rocks at the foot of the headland are in the next square to the south, but I couldn't get to them safely at sea level and would not have had time to climb up, over, down and then up again without holding up the rest of the group I was with. Most annoying!

Anne Burgess

Triassic Conglomerate

This exposed section through the Stornoway Sandstone Formation at Rubha na Leac shows that the sandstone was formed in shifting channels. Sometimes the current was strong enough to move quite large pebbles, but at other times it was less energetic and only deposited finer sand, resulting in the smoother bands of rock. This was in the Triassic, about 260 million years ago.

Anne Burgess

Rubha na Leac

The photographer is photographing the steeper face of the rock layer in the centre of the image. This is a sill of igneous rock that was intruded into the Triassic sandstone when it was about 200 million years old. The heat of the molten rock baked the underlying sandstone, which made it harder and more resistant to erosion, so it has been left sticking up while the unbaked material below it, to the right in this view, has been removed.

Anne Burgess

Bouldery shoreline south of Rubha nÃ Leac

Not the easiest place in the world to access by land. The view is across the Inner Sound to the mainland of Scotland.

John Allan

Rubha nÃ Leac

Interesting agglomerate rock on the eastern side of Rubha nà Leac. The view is up the Inner Sound, with Rona on the left and the Scottish mainland on the right.

John Allan

Low tide at the foot of Beinn na Leac

My kayak marks the northern edge, and the paddle the corner, of the grid square. These rocks which are exposed only at low tide are covered in limpets and whelks, as well as various seaweeds.

Toby Speight

View north from Rubha na Leac

This small outlier of Triassic sandstone occurs at this spot on Raasay's wild eastern coast. It is a conglomerate assigned to the Stornoway Formation. The clearly visible summit of Dun Caan is formed from a basalt of Palaeogene age whilst the light coloured coastal cliffs are of early Jurassic age; sandstones assigned to the Ardnish Formation.

Alan Bowring

Rocky fissures at Creag nan Cadhaig

These sinister-looking slots in rock are on Dun Caan, south-east from the summit. David Tyers has an image taken from a very similar location - Link. He suggests that "The name Creag nan Cadhaig can perhaps be translated as rock of the small ravines". The rising ground beyond the clefts reaches Beinn na' Leac at 319 metres.

Trevor Littlewood