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Lykling - soapstone

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

SOAPSTONE FOR BERGEN'S CHURCHES ...

Hana

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

Toftøyna

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Gullbotnen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Grasdalen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

MARBLE AND KARST ...

Kvernes

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad

Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Møkstrafjordøyane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...

Drøna

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Erling Rykkelid

GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...

Ulven

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Neumann

Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...

Tveit Mine

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

Finnås

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...

Siggjo

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...

Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...

Kattnakken–Stovegolvet

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...

Vatlestraumen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Ågotnes - crystals

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Turøyvegen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Hanøy

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

Golta - Gneiss

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth

Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

Spildepollen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

The bedrock of western Norway

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...

The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...

Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...

The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...

Einstapevoll - slates

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...

Gildrehola

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Erik Lauritzen

Ølve - Mining

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...

Ingahogg

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Øystein Jansen

At nearly 1000 metres over sea level, on the north side of INGAHOGG mountain, the remains of a soapstone quarry have been discovered. It is said, acco...

Lykling - gold

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Brian Robins Haakon Fossen

During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...

Gaupås

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Sandviksfjellet

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...

Fjøsanger

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Jan Mangerud

Fjøsanger is known among ice age researchers from around the world. Under an excavation in 1975-77, geologists from the University of Bergen found lay...

Marmorøyen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Sålesnes

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen, Nils Georg Brekke, Atle Sollesnes

Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. K...

Herand - geologi

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein Jansen

SCULPTURES IN THE BEDROCK...

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 ...

Lussand - geology

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...

Froastad

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Villand Reutz

RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...

Kvamskogen

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...

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...

Kvalvikane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...

Matskorhæ

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

QUARTZ AND ANATASE...

Mjølfjell

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen

KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Nordheim

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...

Hamlagrø

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe

The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Buadalsbrotet

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

FOSSIL SCREE ...

Vassfjøro

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen William Helland-Hansen

ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...

Trail toward Kyrkjedøri

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen Helge Askvik

Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...

Bergesfjellet

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...

Espevik

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...

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...

Lurøyane

Bedrock

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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