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Flysch

(flɪʃ)
n
(Geological Science) (sometimes not capital) a marine sedimentary facies consisting of a sequence of sandstones, conglomerates, marls, shales, and clays that were formed by erosion during a period of mountain building and subsequently deformed as the mountain building continued. The phenomenon was first observed in the Alps
[Swiss German]
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flysch

(flɪʃ)

n.
an association of certain types of marine sedimentary rocks characteristic of deposition in a foredeep.
[1845–55; < German < Swiss German flīsch referring to such deposits in the Swiss Alps]
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The study area is covered by the rocks ranging in age from Triassic to recent/subrecent, and can be divided structurally, into three domains, Tungi-Ahmadun Syncline Area, Khanozai-Torkhula Ophiolite Segment and Murgha Zikriazai Flysch Segment.
A good example are the Flysch Carpathians, where so far almost 58,000 landslides have been inventoried in the Polish part of the area, and their approximate number here may exceed even 100,000 (Wojcik and Wojciechowski, 2016).
K-bentonite, black-shale and flysch successions at the Ordovician--Silurian transition, South China: Possible sedimentary responses to the accretion of Cathaysia to the Yangtze Block and its implications for the evolution of Gondwana.
* Tajillo del Moro (Casabermeja): se trata de un sepulcro megalitico de corredor ubicado en las laderas septentrionales de los Montes de Malaga, en el contacto con el flysch de Colmenar, en las cercanias de los asentamientos de Cerro Garcia y Los Penones, de la estacion rupestre de Penas de Cabrera y las minas de cobre de Casacara.
En su geologia predomina el flysch propio de la fase de sedimentos eocenicos destacando el paisaje karstico en el macizo de Larra y las profundas foces en las barras calizas del mediodia del valle.
Tazioli, "Characterizing the recharge of fractured aquifers: a case study in a Flysch rock mass of the Northern Apennines (Italy)," Engineering Geology for Society and Territory, vol.
(iv) F: coastal rockstone flysch bank of Cenozoic era (more precisely, Eocene period), with high compactness
These carbonate platforms tectonically overlay a pile of Mesozoic-Tertiary pelagic basin successions belonging to the Lagonegro unit, Neogene flysch deposits, and shallow-water and slope facies carbonates of the Apulian Platform ([40-43] and references therein).
The most widespread lithotypes are limestones and dolomites (34%), alluvial sediments and clays (22%), volcanic rocks (18%), and flysch deposits and arenaceous assemblages (17%) (Geoportale Nazionale, 2016).