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NORWAY'S NATIONAL ROCK TYPE IN LARVIK - LARVIKITE.
Norway's national rock type is called Larvikite and it is the dominant rock type in Larvik. Larvikite is a very popular decorative stone that is exported throughout the world because of its lovely shimmering blue color.
The landscape in Larvik is characterized by the hilliness that a rock type like larvikite often gives. Along the coast, the Larvikite is polished by the ice that covered the land under the last ice age and resulted in the fine smooth larvikite outcrops that dominate the coast of Vestfold.
In Larvik we also find Mølen, which is a part of the extensive end moraine that extends around the whole of Scandinavia. This is an ice age monument of world class. On the cobblestone beaches one finds rock types from large parts of southwest Norway that were carried to Mølen by large meltwash rivers when the ice melted after the last Ice Age.
The agricultural areas in Larvik lie almost exclusively between the Ra moraine and the sea, or on the Ra moraine.
Picture; Svenner lighthouse in its idyllic location along the coast of Vestfold. The bedrock at Svenner is larvikite.