by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach Rhomb-porphyryRhomb-porphyry is an easily recognisable rock type from the Oslo area. It has been transported from eastern Norway by ice and currents and deposited on the boulder beach at...
by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach The boulder beachesThe Jæren coast has a great variety of rocky, boulder and sandy shoreline habitats. The map shows where the boulder beaches are...
by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach Sand and finer sedimentsIn calmer shallow waters, sand and finer sediments sometimes accumulate between the great immovable rocks and...
by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach Iron Age burial moundsThere are more than 600 Iron Age burial mounds scattered along the Jæren coast. They are built of rounded stones and represent our ancestors’ memorials to their dead relatives. From the burial mounds at the vicarage farm at...
by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach The biggest stone blocksThe biggest stone blocks are immovable, but the waves wash away the finer sediments around...
by WPorre | May 26, 2016 | Boulder Beach
Boulder Beach RevtangenRevtangen – this is as far west as you can get along the Jæren coast. It is where the Lista Moraine disappears out to sea. Because of its location, Revtangen is the first landing site for many of our migratory birds in spring, and their last...
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