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Drift Boulder from the Lower Rhine Bay

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Drift Boulder from the Lower Rhine Bay

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Drift Boulder from the Lower Rhine Bay

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Location: Bruch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Die_Ute

May 26, 2024

Erratics are relics of the ice ages.

In the Quaternary period (around 1 million years ago) they reached the Lower Rhine Bay when glaciers and their meltwater released them from the subsoil. They drifted on ice floes and were finally deposited in the Rhenish lignite mining area between Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen.

As the overburden was removed, the blocks, which weighed several tons, were exposed in the open-cast lignite mine. This example was transported here on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage of the St. Matthias Brotherhood of Jüchen to the grave of St. Mattihas. This drift stone comes from the Garzweiler open-cast mine and was exposed in 2001.

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Dirk Couck

July 1, 2025

Stage 13 of the Eifelsteig passes here:

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Drift Boulder from the Lower Rhine Bay

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