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On salt and old timber buildings

3. November 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

In the last post, we took a walk in a cave that water has carved out in the easily solvable mineral anhydrite, a calcium sulphate. Anhydrite is among the minerals […]

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Geology and society, Palaeozoic, Perm, Permian, Russia

Boooo! Halloween in the Kungurian – literally

30. October 2014by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

A few days ago, I took you to Perm to look at the Permian, and a crash-course in the mysterious ways of carbonate rock porosity. Today, we home into the […]

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Geology and society, Geology photography, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Perm, Permian, Russia, Sand, shale and gravel

Perm and the Permian: Carbonate porosity for muggles

27. October 2014by Karsten Eig 1 Comment

Some places have a special place in the hearts of geologists. Iceland with its volcanoes. The Dorset coast because it is the cradle of modern geology. The Oslo Graben because […]

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Geology and society, Geology photography, Oil and Gas, Palaeozoic, Perm, Permian, Russia, Sand, shale and gravel

Pretty crossbeds from Hovedøya

10. May 2014by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

OK, folks, here is another post of Early Paleozoic sediments from Hovedøya, near Oslo. Because that’s the closest to my home I find pretty sedimentary rocks. This time, the I […]

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Geology photography, Norway, Oslo area, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel

A nice fault on the way to work

8. April 2014by Karsten Eig 2 Comments

All my faults are normal, but I can reverse them…is an old joke among us structural geology nerds. But there is no reason to reverse this prettier-than-normal fault, which actually […]

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Cambrian, Crash'n'bang geology, Geology photography, Norway, Oslo area, Palaeozoic, Permian

Pretty sedimentology from Hovedøya in the Oslo fjord

23. April 2013by Karsten Eig Leave a comment

For no particular reason, I took a trip to Hovedøya, one of the islands in the fjord just south of Oslo. These islands consist of the ”Cambrosilurian”, Cambrian to Silurian […]

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Geology photography, Palaeozoic, Sand, shale and gravel

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