Western Gneiss Region
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Western Gneiss Region
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The Western Gneiss Region is a large geological unit in Norway chiefly made of gneiss rock that formed through metamorphism during the Caledonian orogeny. It makes up a tectono-stratigraphic terrane of the Scandinavian Caledonides and is also part of the Baltic shield. The region extends across western Norway from Bergen to Trondheim as a Caledonian window, outliers of the Western Gneiss Region crop out as far north as the Lofoten archipelago. The rocks of the Western Gneiss Region are made up o
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Large geological unit in Norway, part of the Baltic shield
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Gneiss_Region
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2023-11-21T00:33:45Z
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