Stein I: Intro

Some of the world's oldest rocks can be found in Lofoten in Northern Norway.

Especially in the Reine area, where 3.5 billion-year-old gneiss is visible as surrounding rocks and majestic mountain peaks.

Gneiss is a non-magnetic metamorphic rock, formed at very high temperatures and pressures.

It has a foliated surface, often sporting beautiful bands or wave patterns.

A gneiss rock, like this one from Reine, has probably experienced the very creation of Lofoten.

It might have experienced a Lofoten inhabited by dinosaurs?

It for sure has experienced the arrival of the human race, from the very first hunter-gatherers straying all the way up here to the high north, to the present times' mass tourism from all over the world...