Misplaced Pages

Vinga (Gothenburg)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Vinga (Sweden))
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Swedish. (March 2024) Click for important translation instructions.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Swedish Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|sv|Vinga}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Vinga island in May 2013.

Vinga is a small island 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) outside Gothenburg's harbour entrance in Sweden. The 19th century Vinga Lighthouse is noted, not only as a beacon in the waterway of the Swedish west coast, but also as the place where the Swedish poet laureate Evert Taube grew up. Today Vinga is a tourist attraction, with boats to and from Gothenburg harbour.

Geology

The bedrock of Vinga is mostly made up of porphyrite (porfyrit), a volcanic rock with less Silicon dioxide, SiO2, than porphyry. The rock has a fine-grained structure, dark with lighter grains of feldspar and other minerals. The mineralogical composition of the Vinga porphyry classifies it as a monzogranite or quartz diorite. The northern part of the island contains orthopyroxene. The Vinga porphyry was created about 950 million years ago, when it penetrated the surrounding older gneiss rock.

References

  1. "Vinga – Porten till Göteborg och Västkusten" [Vinga – Gate to Gothenburg and the West Coast]. www.vinga.net. Vinga.net. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  2. Årebäck, H; Andersson, UB; Petersson, J (2008). "Petrological evidence for crustal melting, unmixing, and undercooling in an alkali-calcic, high-level intrusion: the late Sveconorwegian Vinga intrusion, SW Sweden". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (93): 1–46.


57°38′N 11°36′E / 57.633°N 11.600°E / 57.633; 11.600


Stub icon

This Gothenburg-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This Swedish geography article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: