The Seven Sisters: How Cretaceous beauties made Norway rich
The white cliffs of Dover are English icons, just like cream tea and football, before oligarchs bought the teams. But how many know about their twin sisters in Sussex? Some […]
Category Archives: Sand, shale and gravel
Light Beer: the Cretaceous’s so bright I gotta wear shades!
On our tour along the channel coast, we have been to the Triassic and Jurassic, and now for the third part of the trifle: the Cretaceous. We leave the grey […]
Why pebble beaches are the best – and how to make one
We all love a day on the beach! The sun, the salt water, fish playing, sand castles, a good book and ice cream. The soft sand… …the sand, which creeps […]
Ladram Bay: A Pandora in England
I stand on the edge of the cliff. Below me, the sea, and the eternal sound of breaking waves and screaming seagulls, riding the air, mocking my fear of stepping […]
Malta article now in GEO ExPro!
Malta – a country shape by limestone (and some very old poo) features in Geotourism in the recent issue of GEO ExPro, a magazine for the petroleum exploration community – […]
Glaciers: The slow sculptors
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? […]
Easter on sparagmite
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
How to see 170 million years in two kilometres
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 […]
Fjordblock island: The Upper Permian of Svalbard
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 […]
Cold seams: The Carboniferous of Svalbard
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 […]