Skæringsten
The Skæringsten is a boulder found in 1996 during earthworks north of Skæring in Jutland , Denmark , weighing around 86 tons.
The Skæringsten was about four meters below ground level. During the work it was dug up and brought to its current position, where the stone has the same orientation as it had in the ground. The stone is about 5 meters long, 4 meters wide and 3 meters high.
The stone is a granite with the following composition
- about 40% pink potassium feldspar
- about 30% gray quartz
- about 25% white feldspar
- about 5% black biotite
The biotite plumes are oriented parallel. This gives the rock a flat structure that can be seen on the southwest and northeast corners of the rock. The parallel structure has different directions at both corners of the stone, as the stone was folded and plastically deformed more than 1 billion years ago. A coarse-grained granite runs through the left side of the stone.
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politikens bog om Danmarks oldtid (= Politikens håndbøger ). Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 .
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 14 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 2.8 ″ E