• Oslo Graben or Oslo Rift is a graben formed during a geologic rifting event in Permian time, the last phase of the Variscan orogeny. The main graben forming...
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    Japan Beppu–Shimabara graben, Kyushu, Japan Rhine valley, border area of west Germany and northeast France Oslo graben around Oslo, Norway Central Lowlands...
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    Plutonic Complex), a suite of ten igneous plutons emplaced in the Oslo Rift (Oslo Graben) surrounded by ~1.1 billion year old Sveconorwegian gneisses. The...
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    Oligocene. The graben is controlled by faults on its western side and is filled with Cenozoic sediments up to 2 km thick. The Bresse Graben lies to the east...
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    Rift (category Rifts and grabens)
    features are a central linear downfaulted depression, called a graben, or more commonly a half-graben with normal faulting and rift-flank uplifts mainly on one...
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    directed rifting with associated igneous activity, during which the Oslo graben formed. The only Triassic rocks preserved onshore are found on Svalbard...
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    Kolsås (category Mountains of Oslo)
    the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Geologically, Kolsås belongs to the Oslo Graben area. Its two peaks consist of hard rhomb porphyric lava covering softer...
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    Mount Kilimanjaro), Mount Erebus near the Ross Sea in Antarctica, the Oslo graben in Norway, and south-central British Columbia. To the Romans it was known...
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  • zone in Northwestern Ontario, Canada Oslo Graben – Inactive Permian geological rift in Norway Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben – Rift valley extending from near...
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    down until it met the less-easily eroded intrusive sill (part of the Oslo Graben) at the town center of Eidsvoll where it formed the Svanfoss. Falls are...
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  • Thomas Georg Münster (category Scientists from Oslo)
    at the Geological Survey of Norway from 1882 to 1897, mostly in the Oslo Graben. He was the mint administrator from 1899 to 1906, the mine manager for...
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    sedimentary rocks in the north. It forms part of the geological area Oslo Graben. Nils Spjeldnæs. "Oslofeltet". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian)....
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    Skagerrak, this north–south structure is called the Bamble-Oslo Graben. The Viking Graben is separated from the Faeroe Shetland Basin below the Atlantic...
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    Mylonite Zone, as this shear zone is known, runs as an arc from the Oslo graben to northern Halland passing by Lake Vänern. The status of Idefjorden...
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    flower is Anemone ranunculoides. The geology of Bærum is part of the Oslo Graben and includes Rhomb porphyry at Kolsås. Since nearly two-thirds of Bærum's...
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  • to the surface, as a rhomb porphyric conglomerate, part of the unique Oslo graben. Erosion of this conglomerate due to sea and waves gives rise to the...
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    Range Province which covers most of Nevada, forming a series of horst and graben structures. Tectonic extension at divergent boundaries where continental...
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    Victor Goldschmidt (category University of Oslo alumni)
    soon after, at age 59.: 26  For his thesis, Goldschmidt studied the Oslo graben, a valley formed by the downward displacement of a block of land along...
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    tracing sediment source. A study on detrital zircon from sandstones in the Oslo Rift, Norway identified major sediment source in Fennoscandia region and...
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    sub-stage has also been interpreted in the evolution and filling of the Oslo Graben. Variable rates of rotation across individual fault blocks initiated...
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  • area about three kilometres in diameter. It is located just west of the Oslo graben. Radiometric age dating on the carbonatites gave an age of 539 +/- 14...
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  • Rhine graben, Rhône graben, Saône graben, Lower Rhine Embayment and Leine graben as well as the Eger graben in the Bohemian Massif. The Limagne graben is...
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    Ljan (category Neighbourhoods of Oslo)
    volcanism marked the entire Oslo Graben and caused faults to arise across the Oslo region. As Bundefjorden sank, the Oslo valley sank along a northern...
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    Neustadt Saddle in the West Hesse Depression and on along the Leine Graben to the Oslo Graben. The north of the Northern Vogelsberg Foreland is, in the immediate...
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    of a back-arc basin. This environment has created a number of horst and graben features on the seafloor, similar to basin and range topography. Many of...
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    Cenozoic Rift System Hellenic Trench Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian...
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  • field is one of a series of hydrocarbon accumulations within the Viking Graben. This part of the northern North Sea has been affected by two main rift...
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    rift zone formed of three grabens: the Pantelleria graben, that of Malta, and that of Linosa. The faults bounding these grabens are associated with most...
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    Cenozoic Rift System Hellenic Trench Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian...
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    Cenozoic Rift System Hellenic Trench Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian...
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