A Geologist’s Dream

In Norway, Larry has so enjoyed interacting with the geologists who share many of his interests and talk the same language. And now he has enjoyed a pilgrimage to the area where glacial geology originated.

Sunday we took the ferry to Forsand which is the area where Professor Jens Esmark walked in 1823 and developed the theory of the ice age. Afterwards he wrote a scientific article suggesting that the whole of Northern Europe had once been covered by glaciers. We saw the end moraine that suggested to Esmark that glaciers had in the past been in Norway. The large boulders dotting the landscape were dropped by the ice, not deposited in the great flood, or were thrown by trolls.