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

8. June 2015by Karsten Eig 6 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

Glaciers: The slow sculptors

20. April 2015by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

It’s springsummertime in Oslo! Sun! 20 plus! Hepaticas are in full bloom on the Cambrosilurian on Hovedøya! Any better time for one last escape back to the lovely, cold Arctic? […]

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Geology photography, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Norway, Quaternary, Sand, shale and gravel, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

Easter on sparagmite

13. April 2015by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Easter is behind us, and being Very Very NorwegianTM, I can provide the politically correct answer to the question «what did you do for the Easter vacation?»: Together with

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Cambrian, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology photography, Norway, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel

A visit to Mordor – a.k.a. Hornsund, Svalbard

7. April 2015by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

Tuff – tuff – tuff… MS Origo moves slowly thorugh the water, her engine puffing, almost as taking a pause to think and look around between each stroke. She is […]

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Carboniferous, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology photography, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Mesozoic, Norway, Palaeozoic, Precambrian, Quaternary, Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Triassic

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

Haggis eruptions: Edinburgh for geologists

14. February 2015by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

In between writing the reports from Svalbard, I had to do a business trip to Scotland, still part of the Fairly United Queendom. Then, I enjoyed a couple of days […]

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Carboniferous, Geology and society, Geology photography, Palaeozoic, Scotland, Volcanoes

How to see 170 million years in two kilometres

1. February 2015by Karsten Eig 3 Comments

I am a petroleum geologist for my day time job. Petroleum geologists study sedimentary rocks, because they are the ones that contain oil (sand and limestones) or are the source […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Cretaceous, Geology photography, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Norway, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Permian, Sand, shale and gravel, Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Triassic

Fjordblock island: The Upper Permian of Svalbard

13. January 2015by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

I promised you the Permian on Svalbard, after the Carboniferous. Well, the lower Permian on Svalbard was basically the same as the Upper Carboniferous, and 300 million years ago is […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Geology photography, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Norway, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Permian, Sand, shale and gravel, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

Cold seams: The Carboniferous of Svalbard

5. January 2015by Karsten Eig 9 Comments

Svalbard. What comes to mind? Polar bears that eat kids alive if they don’t carry guns in the settlement. Which they do. At least the parents. Dark as a coal […]

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Carboniferous, Geology and society, Geology photography, Norway, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

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