Soil formations in Rovaniemi

The soil formations in the Rovaniemi region were created at the melting stage of the last Weichselian glaciation. The edge of the glacier was then divided into strips, the flow orientation of which was mainly west to east. The glacier deposited the material that it had loosened into different moraine formations on the edge of the ice. These formation are often ridges, which go either with the direction of movement or transversely across it. Towards the end of the thawing period, the movement of the glacier slowed down and finally stopped. As the ice melted, the fractured material was deposited at the edge of the glacier either as gently sloping fields or as hummocky moraine. All these types of formations can be encountered in the Rovaniemi region, even quite near to the centre of the city.

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