scandinavia escorted tours Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/scandinavia-escorted-tours Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Scandinavia Vacations http://toursmaps.com/scandinavia-vacations.html http://toursmaps.com/scandinavia-vacations.html#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:10:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228762 Formation of the fjords During the last Ice Age, some 3 million years ago, the whole of Scandinavia was covered with a massive ice sheet, reducing in thickness towards the coast. The existing river valleys were gouged out by the ice to ever greater depths often as deep as the rocks rearing above the valley were high. Since along the coast the ice was thinner the fjords were gouged out to a lesser depth at their mouths. The bank at the mouth of a fjord may be only some 180 m (600 ft) deep, while farther inland depths of up

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