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Category Archives: Svalbard/Spitsbergen

How life makes life on Earth possible

21. December 2018by karsten 5 Comments

Without life, the Earth would not be a place suitable for life. Sounds like a Catch-22? You bet. But it is true. In this blog post, we will explore how […]

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Cambrian, Crash'n'bang geology, Devonian, Fossils, dinosaurs, evolution, Glaciers and other cold stuff, Science and philosophy, Svalbard/Spitsbergen, Volcanoes

Glaciers: The slow sculptors

20. April 2015by karsten 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

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

7. April 2015by karsten 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

Politics in stone: Svalbard’s Cenozoic coal

24. March 2015by karsten 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 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

How to see 170 million years in two kilometres

1. February 2015by karsten 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

Karsten makes a mistake on karst

21. January 2015by karsten Leave a comment

Sorry, I cannot resist a good pun :) In the first blog post in the series on Svalbard, I wrote that the holes in the limestone, up in the mountainside […]

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Science and philosophy, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

Fjordblock island: The Upper Permian of Svalbard

13. January 2015by karsten 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 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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Recent Posts

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