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Storegga (Norwegian: Great Edge) is located at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km (62 mi) north-west of the Møre coast. In around 6200 BCE, structural failures of the shelf caused three underwater landslides , which triggered very large tsunamis in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Mølen is a coastal geopark in the Brunlanes area of Larvik Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. The park is Norway's largest beach made up of rolling stones. [1] It is a part of Vestfoldraet, the terrain left behind after the end of the most recent ice age around 10,000 years ago. [2] [3] Mølen is one of Larvik's most popular tourist ...
The border between Norway and Sweden including Finland was decided in the Strömstad Treaty of 1751 and marked with cairns the following years, including cairn 294 which is located on a hill 150 meters east of today's Three-Country Cairn.
The geology of Norway encompasses the history of Earth that can be interpreted by rock types found in Norway, and the associated sedimentological history of soils and rock types. The Norwegian mountains were formed around 400 million years ago (Ma) during the Caledonian orogeny .
A typical clearance cairn from Eglinton Country Park in Scotland. A clearance cairn is an irregular and unstructured collection of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture and collected into a usually low mound or cairn.
A straight line along Norway's sea borders (the coastal perimeter) is 2,650 kilometers (1,650 mi) long. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Along the coast there are many fjords , islands , and bays, resulting in a low-resolution coastline of over 25,000 kilometers (16,000 mi). [ 3 ]
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