Paleic surface

[5] Hardangervidda, a particularly flat and elevated part of the Paleic surface formed in the Miocene at sea level.

[6] Although the tilted plateau-like topography of south Norway had been noted since the early 1800s, the first formal description was by Hans Reusch in 1901, using a denudation chronology approach invoking several of W.M.

Possibly the warping of the envelope surface reflects doming of the crust associated with the uplift of the Scandinavian Mountains in the Cenozoic.

[6] In the Early Pliocene (5–4 million years ago) the surfaces such as Hardangervidda were uplifted by tectonic forces 1.2 km.

[5] Since the paleic surface formed river and glacier erosion has eroded much of it in Western Norway, but scattered remnants are ubiquitous.

Some parts of the paleic surface in Varanger Peninsula are a re-exposed unconformity that underlie sedimentary rock of Vendian (Late Neoproterozoic) age.

[13] Parts of the continental shelf of Norway corresponds to paleic surfaces called bankflats.