Laxford

Laxford is in Sutherland, in the Highland council area of Scotland; Scourie, 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) away, is the nearest village.

[7] The loch is a Special Area of Conservation, classified as a large shallow inlet and bay – it has a wide variety of marine habitats and species.

Laxford is in the region of the Lewisian gneiss complex, deformed by the Moine Thrust, which occurred during the Caledonian Orogeny.

At Laxford, layers of pink granite and pegmatite intruded into hot gneiss about 1,750 million years ago.

F. Davies released a series of articles about the area in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the Scouie dyke swarms that cross cut the lewisian gneiss in the region.

Further work in the area has investigated the nature of the Laxford shear zone (for example, the current geologist Katherine Goodenough).

Laxford Bridge crossing the River
Islands in Loch Laxford – the main one shown is Eilean a' Mhadaidh
New A838 road cutting showing grey felsic gneiss, intruded with black gneiss, then intruded with pink granite and later deformed in the Laxfordian event