North Norway 1 (IMAGE)

University of British Columbia

North Norway 1

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Mountains in Norway's Saltfjellet-Svartisen national park, part of a large mountain belt which formed about 420 million years ago when the precursor to the North American continent crashed into a former continent comprised of he Scandinavian Shield and adjacent areas in Poland, the Baltic states, and western Russia.

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Matthijs Smit

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