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The Knight’s Leap across the Hipster Troll’s pots

6. July 2015by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

Once upon a time, the brave knight Sigvat, advisor to the King, got letter from a beautiful maiden who was forced into engagement with another knight, Eldjarn. Eldjarn means «fire-iron», […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Geology in culture and folklore, Geology photography, Norway, Palaeozoic, Quaternary

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

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

Geology forensics: That’s my fault, Sherlock!

1. December 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Geologists love to play detectives. Often, we find rocks that just do not look right, that should’t be just that way, even may seem self contradicting. Enter our inner Sherlocks, […]

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Crash'n'bang geology, Devonian, Geology photography, Jurassic, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic, Scotland

Insta petroleum system: Wick’ed oil in Scotland

30. November 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Usually, petroleum geologists think of source rock and reservoir as different things: The source is the tight, shitty shale that has to be be boiled to expulse oil. The reservoir […]

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Devonian, Geology photography, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel, Scotland

Desert city in the woods

10. November 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

Our journey to the far east of Europe soon comes to an end. But first, a look at something completely different, in age and type of rock. Let’s leave the […]

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Carboniferous, Geology photography, Palaeozoic, Perm, Russia, Sand, shale and gravel

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