cryptoflysch

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English

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ flysch.

Noun

cryptoflysch (plural not attested)

  1. (geology) Any flysch-like material other than sandstone or schist which is found in similar formations.
    • 1992, Geologica Carpathica - Volume 43, page 78:
      Particularly, the relation of magnetic anomalies and the upper part of formations characterized by cryptoflysch and richer accumulations of bituminous components with dissipated Fe-sulphides mineralization can be mentioned.
    • 2013, Jean Aubouin, Geosynclines, →ISBN, page 139:
      In the Apennines and the southern Alps, the “scaglia cinerea” and certain “scaglia rossa” facies correspond to metaflysch or cryptoflysch, and so on. In short, not one but several types of flysch (constituting a generation) are in the process of deposition at any given moment.