Flysch

Word FLYSCH
Character 6
Hyphenation flysch
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Flysch"

What do we mean by flysch?

A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

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The word "flysch" in example sentences

The dominant features are the limestone formations of the middle and upper Triassic, the upper Jurassic and the upper Cretaceous, especially the so-called Durmitorean flysch. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is therefore likely that in the past there were no fields in areas with a flysch substrate. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Field terraces on flysch deposits are rare and recent, based on the field dimensions and wall construction. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Leaving behind the last outliers and flysch foothills of the mountains that had dominated their travels, they turned west when they reached the Great Mother River and began approaching the northern foreland of the even larger and loftier range to the west. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

Between the river and the mountains was a landscape of dormant vegetation overlaying a flysch zone of sandstone. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

This limestone wave was shown to be one of a great series, running parallel with the Alps, and constituting an undulatory district, chiefly composed of chalk beds, separated from the higher limestone district of the Jura and Lias by a long trench or moat, filled with members of the tertiary series -- chiefly nummulite limestones and flysch. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Experiment in investigation of nannoplankton from varicolored flysch in the zone of the Marmorosh Cliffs, Ukrainian Carpathians. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The idealized prototype of a southern Tuscan antimony deposit can be described as an irregular mineralization situated in the upper part of a highly porous limestone unit, usually the Calcare Cavernoso ( "vuggy limestone"), overlain by an impermeable unit, normally a flysch-type rock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Big map | Google Earth KML flysch (updated 19 hours ago) lat: 43.2951525395, long: -2.35328435898 ❋ Flysch (2009)

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