III.—The Slow Secular Rise or Fall of Continental Masses

• Published in: Geological Magazine
• Main Author: Pettersen, Karl
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1879
• Subjects: Geology; Tromso; Bredviken
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800157462; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800157462

Joining a foreign geologist, who was staying here a while last summer on his journey to the North, I followed the old shoreline or sea-level of Bredviken, cut in the solid rock, and extending along the north part of the island of Tromso, near the sound bearing the same name. When, at the end of that line, about Oerendalen, we threw a glance at the low ground beneath, named Skatoeren, this appeared furrowed with a series of natural ditches, stretched horizontally and parallel to the present coast. Seen from above, they were marked very sharply and distinctly. This attracted my attention, the more so as I had often there, and as frequently traversed the plain, without having discovered the fact. We accordingly went down on the low ground to examine the matter more closely, but it did not appear there so distinctly, as might be supposed when seen from above. But after a more searching examination, we succeeded in detecting a series of more or less distinct and parallel furrows. Our time being limited, however, we could make no closer inquiry for the moment; but as I considered the matter worth more minute studying, I returned to the place a few days afterwards.