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Garnets at Vågenes

Vågenes

18.06.2018 - 20:08

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 average.

The quartz quarry in the mountainside above Kvalvikane

Kvalvikane

27.05.2018 - 15:24

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 Kvalvikane.

This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.

Toftøyna

27.03.2019 - 15:07