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![A zone with nuggets from the inner earth.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_26.jpg?itok=6s7Qo0xH)
![Potholes by the Koldals River](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fokllk.jpg?itok=MZgPWao9)
Eikelandsosen
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountainside is along the river up to Koldal , one would look a long time to see anywhere else. There is much to dazzle a geologist's eyes. If only these features could bring others the same joy!"
![Fossen cliff](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_11.jpg?itok=VQQxhF23)
Fossen Bratte
The steep drop by Fossen cliff has been the biggest challenge for those who wished to make a road over Kvamskogen through the years. Leave the car by the monument on the old road and take a walk down to the bend by the waterfall that Bergen-folk call "The bridal veil". Why is there a waterfall just here?
![Gneiss.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_25.jpg?itok=1PhE0wUc)
![Gjønavatnet and Kikedalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_320_kikedalen_150.jpg?itok=mWd_BFbm)
![Soft shapes in the hard mountain.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/samnanger.jpg?itok=TBH6DVLU)
![The saw tooth pattern is clearly visible from Skora Mountain southwards toward Tellnes and Skogsvågen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_26.jpg?itok=JF-ZMEUU)
Haganes
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken off shorter transverse sides. It has taken several hundred million years to file this saw blade, an enduring interplay between various geological processes.
![Herdla, Askøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_272-1.jpg?itok=a3mGo7KI)
Herdla farm
Numerous finds show that the settlement at Herdla goes back to prehistoric times, and the large estate at Herdla has enjoyed a central place in the nation’s history since High Middle Ages. As Ask, Herdla was part of the country estate Harald Hårfagre took over as he took command of the west of Norway.
![From the mountainous rocks just below Sandvikshytte cabin on Sandviksfjellet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/sandviksfjellet_berg_42_0.png?itok=ojW0mG7e)
Sandviksfjellet
On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge slabs of rock, during slow, but powerfulprocesses of transport. This conglomerate shows, in quite a special way, the enormous powers that were active during the collision between Norway and Greenland over 400 million years ago.
![Geologists from all over the world come to study the veined bedrock (the dark stripe in the picture) at Spildepollen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_9.jpg?itok=Guc62QqZ)
Spildepollen
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 resulted in the North Sea collapsing in and also to large faults forming west of Hordaland and on the mainland. Austefjorden in Sund follows one of these faults.