Lovoya, Norway |
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All locations: Løvøya area
Scientist: Hans Morten Thrane Esmark
Element: thorium, discovered from thorite discovered at Løvøya
Element: Lanthanum, codiscovered from mosandrite at Låven
view is from Sylterøya |
one hundred years earlier |
rotating clockwise to face west |
further clockwise to face northwest |
the Bymuseum |
City Museum of Brevik. |
Hans Morten Thrane Esmark |
"Esmark Street" |
Alf Olav Larsen |
the Stathelle-Brevik Bridge |
The church (Brevik kirke) |
the island is Sandøya |
Typical rustic scene |
Reaching Løvøya |
we do not know exactly |
Docking by the Thorithullet |
the preferred site |
made up of Permian pegmatites |
myriad of embedded minerals |
large deposit of thorite used to exist |
the tiny island of Låven |
Låven means "the barn" |
the glacial furrows |
black aegirine in white feldspar |
the view is southward |
topographical map |
Løvøya and Låven |
view of the town of Langesund |
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