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Gran Canaria: The Miniature Continent

22. June 2015by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

You know the tourist drill: Charter flight. Cerveza. Hotel, all-inclusive. If on budget in Playa del Ingles, which looks like a high-rise-block working class suburb that someone dropped from the […]

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Canary Islands, Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology and society, Geology photography, Spain, Volcanoes

The rainbow at the end of the ash: Barranco del Medio, Gran Canaria

8. June 2015by Karsten Eig 5 Comments

– Sorry, honey, we will be here for a while. Enjoy your book while I shoot the rainbow! I grabbed the camera and jumped out of the car. In front […]

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Canary Islands, Cenozoic, Geology photography, Spain, Volcanoes

Roque Nublo, Gran Canaria: The big finger to the sky

22. May 2015by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

It is a grey day in the mountains. White fog is everywhere, and embraces the pine trees on the steep hills. Drizzle in the air, just enough to make me […]

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Canary Islands, Cenozoic, Geology photography, Spain, Volcanoes

Politics in stone: Svalbard’s Cenozoic coal

24. March 2015by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

Today, we come full circle: Our journey on Svalbard started with coal in the Carboniferous, and it will end with coal. But with much younger coal, from the Early Paleocene, […]

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Carboniferous, Cenozoic, Geology and society, Norway, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

When Greenland met Svalbard: A geological love story

11. March 2015by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

I have teased you like a movie trailer a couple of times now: Akseløya, the tilted hard limestone island. The Festningen profile, where the rocks are tilted into a vertical […]

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Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology photography, Norway, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

Hot water: Wealth from beneath

17. September 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Iceland. The land of Ice and Fire. Today, more fire than usual, and we geo nerds hope for a long-lasting repetition of the Krafla fires, which played their theatre in […]

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Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology and society, Geology photography, Iceland, Volcanoes

Malta: A country shaped by limestone (and a bit of very old poo)

3. November 2013by Karsten Eig 29 Comments

If one word could sum up the Mediterranean island nation of Malta, it would be “limestone”. Limestone has shaped the islands’ topography, their economy and possibly black bank accounts. It […]

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Cenozoic, Geology and society, Geology photography, Malta, Oil and Gas, Sand, shale and gravel

Eldfell – the youngster volcano

20. April 2013by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

1:55 AM, January 23rd 1973: – Honey, there is a volcano in our backyard! – Yeah, right, Steingrimur, get back to sleep now! I do not know if this talk […]

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Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology and society, Geology photography, Iceland, Quaternary, Volcanoes

Fossil treasures of Denmark, 55 million years ago

2. February 2013by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

When God had finished creating the Earth, He had some sand and gravel in excess. To get rid of it, the story goes, He dumped it in the southern North […]

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Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Denmark, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, Geology and society, Geology photography, Sand, shale and gravel

La Gomera: The Green Pearl of the Canary Islands

19. November 2012by Karsten Eig 5 Comments

Ladies’n gangsters! For the benefit of a possible other reader outside Viking lands, this blog will occasionally publish posts in Foreignish. (Foreignish for those who are foreign for those who […]

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Canary Islands, Cenozoic, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology and society, Geology photography, Spain, Volcanoes

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