flysch
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English
Etymology
From German fließen (“to flow, to melt”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flysch (plural flysches)
- (geology) A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
- 1934, Gerald E. Schultz, Geology and Paleontology of a Late Pleistocene Basin in Southwest Kansas, page 232:
- Most of the structures and textures observed at Ponkapoag section have been noted in turbitite and flysch sequences.
Translations
series of sandstones and schists
- flysch
References
- “flysch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.