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Moraine ridges, Fruo.

Fruo

26.05.2018 - 11:21

At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, the longest and most notable of their kind in Hordaland.

The Eidfjord terrace as seen from Lægreid, presumably in the early 1900s.

Hæreid- geology

28.11.2018 - 20:13

The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natural monument left behind by the ice when it retreated.

Sketch showing the process of formation of an esker.

Langavassfjellet

29.03.2018 - 11:35

Skytjedalen in Eidfjord.

Skytjedalen

03.01.2019 - 14:57

Notaholmen, Samnanger

Notaholmen

16.06.2018 - 17:28

The fishnet shed at Notaholmen stands as a reminder of the days when people used to row out on the fjord to set their nets. On Notaholmen the nets were dried, repaired and tanned. And it was a great advantage to store them in a place inaccessible for rats and mice.

The marine use environment on Krossøy, Austrheim

Krossøy

16.06.2018 - 18:32

Furthest north in the island community Rongevær, at the entrance to Fensfjorden, lies Krossøy. Belonging to the farm are the islands of Krossøy, Husøy, Kårøy, Lyngkjerringa, Søre Kjerringa, Rotøy and Kuhovet. All of them have been inhabited. On Krossøy itself today there are four holdings. The marine use environment here is one of the best preserved along the West Norwegian coast.

From Kvalvågstraumen

Kvalvågstraumen

11.07.2017 - 13:56

The Hopland mills around 1940.

Kvernhusvågen

30.03.2018 - 09:08

Toward Støle and Sørheim, 1920.

The village of Etne

18.12.2018 - 20:39

Much of the sand and gravel that the town of Etne is built on was laid down at the end of the Ice Age and is evidence of melting glaciers and roaring meltwater rivers. The uncompacted material in the big terraces leave their unmistakeable mark on the wide elongated valleys.

Den flate terrassen på moreneryggen på garden Tjedla viser kor høgt havet stod på slutten av den siste istida.

Skånevik- moraine

06.03.2019 - 14:58

In Skånevik there are marks left from the ice edge that advanced during the thousand-year cold spell (Younger Dryas) that marked the end of the Ice Age roughly 11 500 years ago. The glacier first proceeded out into Åkra Fjordand and around Vannes and thereafter sent an arm in toward Skånevik. Here, the glacier lay down an end moraine up against the mountainside.

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