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    Flysch (/flɪʃ/) is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones...
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    The Carpathian Flysch Belt is an arcuate tectonic zone included in the megastructural elevation of the Carpathians on the external periphery of the mountain...
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    orogenic belt is a Tertiary accretionary wedge of a so-called Flysch belt (the Carpathian Flysch Belt) created by rocks scraped off the sea bottom and thrust...
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  • Turbidite (Gorgoglione Flysch), Miocene, South Italy...
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    vegetation while the lower section, up to 600 m (2,000 ft), consists of flysch. The undulating mountain ridge features a steep eastern slope and a western...
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    Contourite Flysch High-density turbidity currents (Lowe sequence) Sediment gravity flows Bouma sequence Bouma, Arnold H. (1962) Sedimentology of some Flysch deposits:...
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    the north, rise from the Rhine Valley and belong to the Helvetic cover or flysch zone of the Alps. Eschnerberg represents an important settlement area in...
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    The molasse deposits accumulate in a foreland basin, especially on top of flysch-like deposits, for example, those that left from the rising Alps, or erosion...
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    the Liguride Units, flysch units with ophiolite were incorporated in the orogenic arc (Cilento Flysch, Flysch Rosso and Frido Flysch). The deformational...
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    north of the developing orogen it formed a small oceanic trench, in which flysch sediments were deposited. The huge amounts of sediments eroded from the...
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    east. The mountain mass consists mainly of paleogene flysch, with smaller amounts of lower flysch and limestone, resulting in a complex tectonic structure...
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    thrust faults. As the rising peaks underwent erosion, a layer of marine flysch sediments was deposited in the foreland basin, and the sediments became...
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    flysch of late Cretaceous to Palaeogene age and hills and mountains characterised by limestone which has given rise to karstic landscapes. The flysch...
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    Riffkalkketten (less 333.7) (to 94 Flysch Alps) 940 Vorarlberg and West Allgäu Flysch Alps (to 941 East Allgäu Flysch Alps) 941.0 Flysch Mountains around the Imberger...
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    be the result of the metamorphism of Middle to Early Cambrian deep sea flysch composed of interbedded, mudstone, shale, clayey sandstone, calcareous sandstone...
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    Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Borders on Swiss Alps, Italian Alps Geology Orogeny Alpine orogeny Age of rock Tertiary Type of rock Bündner schist, flysch and molasse...
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    Alpine Rhine-Danube Flysch can be seen. The Flysch Belt continues through Bohemia, Slovakia, and Poland, and joins the Moldavian Flysch in the Ukraine and...
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  • müesli, and rösti have become English words, as did loess (fine grain), flysch (sandstone formation), kepi, landammann, kilch, schiffli, and putsch in...
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    & rocks Bündner schist flysch molasse Geological structures Aarmassif Dent Blanche klippe Engadine Line Engadine window Flysch zone Giudicárie line Greywacke...
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    R.J. (1995). "Reinterpretation of Depositional Processes in a Classic Flysch Sequence (Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group), Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas and...
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    are found: the Helvetic nappes, the Penninic nappes (as the Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone) and the Eastern Alps (as the Northern Limestone Alps). North of the...
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    Almina. The seabed of the Strait is composed of synorogenic Betic-Rif clayey flysch covered by Pliocene and/or Quaternary calcareous sediments, sourced from...
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    consuming the crust of Carpathian Flysch Basins caused the formation of the External West Carpathian accretionary wedge (Flysch Belt). Vladár, J. (Editor) 1982:...
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    Cretaceous-Paleogene eras, forming belts amid the Paleogene flysch. Ultrabasic rocks are also present, and the older flysch appears in the form of surface bands on the...
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    October 2018). "A diverse deep-sea trace fossil assemblage from the Adriatic Flysch Formation (middle Eocene – middle Miocene), Montenegro (central Mediterranean)"...
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    The largest part of the eastern coast consists of carbonate rocks, while flysch (a particular type of sedimentary rock) is significantly represented in...
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  • single species, C. polonicus, from the Menilite Formation in the Carpathian Flysch Belt of Poland, in what was formerly the Paratethys Sea. It is one of the...
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    sedimentary rocks include thin Cretaceous limestones (now marbles) and Tertiary flysch which is now turned into (mica-) schists. rocks from the former Briançonnais...
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    090 ft). Composed primarily of Cretaceous and Paleogene limestone, along with flysch, the mountain features a varied relief, broken with steep slopes in the...
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    shale, quartzose sandstone, and chert beds. During the Mississippian, a flysch sequence with dark shales and graywackes was deposited. Lenses of silicic...
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