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Sketch showing the process of formation of an esker.

Langavassfjellet

29.03.2018 - 11:35

Sysendammen

Sysendammen

18.03.2018 - 07:59

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.

Toftestallen

Toftestallen

18.03.2018 - 08:09

The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic Ocean. The most common place of origin is nonetheless the North Sea. When these waves break over the skerries and islets along the shore, or on the rocky outermost islands, their energy is released. This takes the form of turbulence in the water and sea spray up on land. Can the enormous energy contained in the waves be exploited?

Blomvågen 1851.

Blomvågen

07.12.2018 - 11:48

"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås who had been interviewed by the newspaper. He thought that he had discovered a 120 000 year old whale bone, remains of life from before the last Ice Age.

Ground up bedrock in the Valen Fault, seen under a microscope.

The Valen Fault

04.01.2019 - 12:59

Halsnøy

Halsnøy

19.12.2018 - 21:15

Hadde ikkje Hardangerfjordbreen mot slutten av istida rykt fram over fjordbotnen, ville Halsnøy ikkje eksistert som éi øy, men som mange småøyar. Breen skuva framfor seg så mykje leire frå havbotnen at Brattåsen, Toftåsen, Landåsen og Svartaberg vart samla i eitt landområde.

Skorpo (Svein Nord)

Skorpo

29.03.2018 - 11:25

Skorpo - Polished by glaciers and meltwater

Langhaugane, Ulvanosa in the background.

Langhaugane

03.01.2019 - 16:52

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