186 Tromsø Museums Aarshefter 31 & 32. - 1908—1901). 



At Drage and Storalmenningen in the Saltdal shells 

 are said to have been observed in a corresponding level 

 above the sea. 



At Fauske there is a shore-line on the east side of 

 the isthmus Fauskeidet about 295 m. above the level of 

 the sea. In the valley between Lake Øvrevand and Lake 

 Langvand there are in many places interesting forms of 

 eroded rocks to be seen, supposed to have been shaped 

 by drift-ice which loaded with frozen-up stones and 

 gravel was carried to and fro by the tides. At Lake 

 Langvand these forms of erosion have been observed 

 about 340 m. above the present sea-level indicating the 

 highest position of the sea in late glacial time. 



According to the above mentioned facts it is supposed 

 that the upper marine boundary lies at Lake Langvand 

 340 m. and in the Mis værdal 280 m. above the present 

 sea-level. Assuming that these shore-lines and other strand 

 marks are synchronous the gradient of this old sea-level 

 is about 1,5 m. per km. 



At Misvær terraces of sand and gravel rise to 115 m. 

 above the sea-level, and in front of these terraces there is 

 a tlat foreland about 17 m. above the sea. The river 

 Lakseiv has dug a channel through these deposits, and in 

 the river bed in the middle of the foreland about 10 m. 

 above sea-level there is a tough blue clay without stones 

 containing an arctic deepwater fauna consisting of 

 Macoma calcaria, Chemn. Porllandia lenticula, Fabr. 



Leda pernula, Müll. Panopea norvegica, Spengl. 



Niicnla tenuis, Mont. 



Discordantly overlying the clay is a greyish black, 

 stinking stratum of sand with a postglacial shallow water 

 fauna, namely: 



