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Manger

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Mangerite is a rock type that was first made famous in a treatise by the Bergen geologist Carl Fredrik Kolderup in 1903. The rock type got its name fr...

Vågenes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than ...

Holmengrå

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Sunde
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...

Lurøyane

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Stall

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The Bergen Arcs have an unusually sharp boundary to the bedrock in the east. Geologists think that this was caused by movements in the earth's crust d...

Litlandsvatnet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Nils Georg Brekke
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Eldsfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Håkon Austrheim
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...