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Rhenohercynian zone
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Rhenohercynian Zone
The
Rhenohercynian Zone
or
Rheno-Hercynian zone
in
structural geology
describes a
fold belt
of west and central Europe, formed during the
Hercynian orogeny
(about ). The zone consists of
folded
and
thrusted
Devonian
and early
Carboniferous
sedimentary rocks
that were deposited in a
back-arc basin
along the southern margin of the then existing
paleocontinent
Laurussia
.
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