Norwegian FIORDS

Fiords can be found on the coasts of many countries, including New Zealand, Scotland, Iceland, Chile, Alaska, Newfoundland and Norway. The most famous and spectacular are those of Western Norway, including the Geiranger fiord and Nærøy fiord. They are the longest and deepest in the world, and this is the reason why UNESCO has declared a World Heritage Site.

Fiords can be found on the coasts of many countries, including New Zealand, Scotland, Iceland, Chile, Alaska, Newfoundland and Norway. The most famous and spectacular are those of Western Norway, including the Geiranger fiord and Nærøy fiord. They are the longest and deepest in the world, and this is the reason why UNESCO has declared a World Heritage Site.
The fiords arise from the sharp and steep walls of rock crystal on the coast. These walls rise up to 1400 meters above Sea level and penetrate up to 500 meters, with its almost vertical drop. Because the climate is humid, are covered with vegetation, which may sometimes find waterfalls of many meters. If all this mix we add the remains of the glacier, wildlife and flora, becomes a place where we can feel nature.
Because of its beauty many tourists come, so get as many people can cause adverse effects. It is therefore necessary that the Norwegian government controls and manages these areas, because the effects caused by human beings sometimes have no way back.

Origin of Norwegian fiords
The main source rock is the crystal, created by pressure and heat inside, as if a furnace inside the earth. They appeared 2 billion years ago but have subsequently suffered more changes, for example, the geological period known as “Caledonia” on the strength of the rock dubbed them. Before and after occurred other geological processes but we focus in quaternary since appearance and morphology these rocks is time.

In the freezing of the past million years, the Norwegian land have been covered with snow, greatly eroding the environment. The snow is able to crack the rock and these  cracks were opened and expanded as more snow was modifying the relief. The glaciers changed the most attention, creating long and deep valleys with U-shaped. The glaciers are alive and snow was moving increasingly creating deep valleys, picking their way rocks of different sizes and leaving many kilometers.

These U-shaped valleys and rocks that the glacier has been carrying up so far are signs that there have been glaciers millions of years ago. Although today there are none, we invite you to travel back in time imaginig all this land of glaciers.