Mora, Sweden sporting event is 1984 World's Strongest Man. The town of Mora is well known for its craft products. A famous Swedish souvenir, "dalahäst", a wooden horse, is produced in the village Nusnäs just outside Mora. The high quality yet inexpensive Mora knives are made in Mora. Steel production company Ovako has a production site in Mora. Mora as a "municipality" never received the title of a city ("stad") before the local government reform of 1971, but as the population exceeds 10,000 the "locality" is today counted as a city by Statistics Sweden. Mora, Sweden Mora is a locality and the
Siljan Ring an annular outcrop of Lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks within Proterozoic granites of the Dala series. In Dalarna, the basement rocks consist of granites dated as 1.6 billion years old, putting them at the boundary between the Paleoproterozoic and the Mesoproterozoic. They were emplaced shortly after the Svecokarelian orogeny. The oldest sedimentary rocks that outcrop in the Siljan area are of Ordovician age. The sequence is dominated by limestone formations with one prominent black shale, the Fjäcka Shale, which is bituminous and has generated petroleum, sourcing the oil found in limestone cavities in the same area. The Ordovician sequence is overlain