The Giebichenstein in
Stöckse, Germany, is one of the largest
erratic boulders of northern Germany. It is in a city called Landkreis Nienburg/Weser. It weighs around 330 tons. A picture of the Giebichenstein is part of the emblem of the Stöckse municipality.
There is the supposition that during
Wolstonian Stage
The Wolstonian Stage is a middle Pleistocene stage of the geological history of Earth from approximately 374,000 until 130,000 years ago. It precedes the Eemian Stage in Europe and follows the Hoxnian Stage in the British Isles.
It is also ap ...
the stone was deposited by glaciers as a part of a
moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris ( regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sh ...
. Near the Giebichenstein there are the remains of a
dolmen
A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were so ...
, and at the stone itself there were found the remains of a
Stone Age hunter's camp.
Historical geology
Glaciology
Rock formations of Lower Saxony
Funnelbeaker culture
Glacial erratics of Germany
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