On the Oblique Uplift of Some Northern Lands

Abstract

A main feature in the geological and geographical development of the Scandinavian land-mass is the fairly recent, Tertiary, uplift to which we owe the existence of large areas of very high land. As the great altitudes are restricted to a western and north-western zone only, with the surface sloping from this orographical axis towards the Baltic depression (in the extreme south of Norway towards the Skagerrak) we must draw the conclusion that this uplift has been of a markedly oblique, unsymmetrical character.

Now the high western and north-western zone of the Scandinavian Peninsula corresponds in a general way (though not in all details) to the zone of deep Caledonian deformation, and it might lie near at hand to assume some sort of causal relation. It has been suggested (Strøm 1948) that the more marked uplift in the west might have some connection with a gravity deficit caused by the thickening of