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Folded rock, without breaking!
On the steep banks of the Sieg, rock layers (greywacke benches) are often visible, which formed 420 - 360 million years ago during the Devonian period from a seabed. After a long period of subsidence, elongated troughs formed, into which the Devonian Sea intruded. In these troughs, sludge and sand layers (sediments) were deposited as runoff from the continents. The seabed sank at the rate of the filling. When this deepening and widening of the sediment-filled sea trough came to a halt, the reverse process began in the Carboniferous period (coal age, 360 - 300 million years ago). The edges of the sea trough started to move towards each other, pushing the now kilometers-thick, consolidated layer packages into folds like a tablecloth. Our Rhenish slate mountain range emerged from this fold mountain. The rock folding at Hövels shows on a small scale how a gigantic geological collision has shaped the landscape of an entire region.
At the sports field Hövels, signposted access from B 62/Main road, 57537 Hövels, at Main road 40
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Rathausstraße 7557537 Wissen
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(0049)2742 9390
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