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Definition of Flysch
1. n. A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
Definition of Flysch
1. Noun. (geology) A set of tertiary strata in the Alps. ¹
2. Noun. (geology) A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flysch
1. a sandstone deposit [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Flysch
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Flysch
Literary usage of Flysch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1904)
"This peculiar fault can only be properly understood when compared with more
complicated disturbances, seen in the upper flysch round the base of the ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1842)
"flysch, Sfc.—The rocks which occupy the space between the different groups are
... The prevailing rock is the flysch, that is to say, a grey or black slate, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is divided longitudinally into an outer zone of Molasse and an inner zone of
flysch. The line of separation is very clearly defined; nowhere does the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The absence of fossils from enormous thicknesses of flysch makes the correlation
with other ... Local phases of the flysch have received special names; ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"Between Suhescun and Iholdy, three miles to the south-east of the granite outcrop,
the undisputed flysch, mainly of white marl abounding in characteristic ..."
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