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Jormua
Jormua is an old village on the shore of the lake of Oulujärvi in the town of Kajaani, Finland. The village has a population of about 750. The Jormua Ophiolite The Jormua Ophiolite (Finnish language, Finnish: ''Jormuan ofioliitti'') is a Ophiolite, remnant of ancient Oceanic crust, oceanic lithosphere near the village of Jormua close to the geographical centre of Finland. The rocks of the Jormua Ophiolit ... is named after the village. Villages in Kainuu Kajaani {{OuluProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jormua Ophiolite
The Jormua Ophiolite (Finnish language, Finnish: ''Jormuan ofioliitti'') is a Ophiolite, remnant of ancient Oceanic crust, oceanic lithosphere near the village of Jormua close to the geographical centre of Finland. The rocks of the Jormua Ophiolite formed about 1,950 million years ago in the Paleoproterozoic, Paleoproteozoic Era. The conditions under which the ocean crust rocks of Jormua formed was likely similar to present-day Red Sea. Thus, a linear sea of this type is thought to have existed between two Continental crust, continental landmasses in Finland. At some point this sea closed and the ophiolite was Obduction, obducted. The Jormua ophiolite is the best preserved one along a larger chain of ophiolites that occur within the Kainuu Schist Belt. The Jormua Ophiolite is broken into 4 geographical blocks termed as the: eastern block, central block, northern block, and western block. The eastern and northern blocks are most similar to one another containing mantle peridotites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kajaani
Kajaani (; ), is a town in Finland and the regional capital of Kainuu. Kajaani is located southeast of Oulujärvi, Lake Oulu, which drains into the Gulf of Bothnia through the Oulujoki, Oulu River. The population of Kajaani is approximately , while the Kajaani sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland. The town was founded in the 17th century, fueled by the growth of the tar industry, but it was preceded by a long history of settlements. During the Finland during the Great Northern War, Great Northern War it succumbed to Russian forces, who ruined Kajaani Castle in 1716. Today, the local economy is mainly driven by the sawmill, lumber, and paper industry, paper industries, although UPM Kymmene's paper mill, the main employer from 1907 until 2008, has since closed. Kajaani Church, Kajaani's church was built in 1896 in the Neo-Gothic style by the architect Jac Ahrenberg to replace an earli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oulujärvi
Oulujärvi () or Lake Oulu or Ule (), is a large lake in the Kainuu region of Finland. It is also historically known as Lake Cajania from a former name of Kainuu.. With an area of it is the List of lakes of Finland, fifth largest lake in the country. The lake is drained by the Oulujoki, Oulu River, which flows northwestward from the lake into the Gulf of Bothnia. Its nickname is the "Kainuu Sea", and it is bordered by the three Municipalities of Finland, municipalities of Vaala, Paltamo, and Kajaani. About 40 percent of the lake is in Vaala. See also *Mulkkusaaret References External links *Oulujarvi, Official tourism website Oulujärvi, Oulujoki basin Landforms of Kainuu {{OuluProvince-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite Estonia. Finland has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Helsinki. The majority of the population are Finns, ethnic Finns. The official languages are Finnish language, Finnish and Swedish language, Swedish; 84.1 percent of the population speak the first as their mother tongue and 5.1 percent the latter. Finland's climate varies from humid continental climate, humid continental in the south to boreal climate, boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with List of lakes of Finland, more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period, last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Kainuu
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''villa''). Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
