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Moody, misty mountains of Dovre
Beautiful afternoon at Akerbrygge, Oslo.
A pretty ominous white cloud over Oslo, late at night. This preceded a snow spell.
Beach strata at Bygdøy. Layers of mudstoney shale and more limey stuff, with silica nodules. You'd think it was vertically aligned if not for my boot at the base
Strata and sea moss on Bygdøy
View from Moss, Norway
It's March and it's still winter up in here. I'm pretty happy right now.
A seriously beautiful igneous rock I found on my walk today. Just look at those crystals! 5kr coin for scale.
Sunset in Frognerparken, Oslo. The ice turned gold for fifteen minutes and we were bathed in light. The dogs got very excited.
A trip to the antikvariat today led to the purchase of a 99-year-old book on Norwegian trolls and mythical creatures. The title is a word similar to 'witchcraft' (but a closer translation would be 'knowledge of magic'), and it's by one of Norway's most loved painters, Theodor Kittelsen. Featuring sjøtrollene, nøkkene, huldra and more... this is most fantastic and I'm over the moon
Turns out a surprising amount of Oslo is volcanic. Because it's situated in a graben, there's also a lot of sediments overlaying the igneous bedrock, sediments which have since been either mildly or heavily metamorphosed.
A clearer view of the trend in the tilted sediments at Bygdøy. Here they are quite uniform and show little sign of metamorphosis...towards the right if the picture you can see a curve begin in the bedding. Up close and further in to the peninsula you can see slickensides in the shaley metasediments. For an idea of direction, West is to the right of this photo and East is left...and Oslo city centre is about 2km North East
An adventure on Bygdøy Peninsula, Oslo. I found some silica nodules embedded in shaley metasediments, all upthrust at a steep angle of (mostly) more than 45°
First impressions of Norway: they celebrate their meteorologists on the side of planes. This is Vilhelm Bjerknes
Thulite from Leksvik, Norway