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Flysch  n.  (Geol.) A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.





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... superficial monuments of the action of heat, Plutonic influences have worked vast changes in the texture of rocks within the same period. Some members of the nummulitic and overlying tertiary strata called flysch have actually been converted in the central Alps into crystalline rocks, and transformed into marble, quartz-rock, micha-schist, and gneiss. (Murchison Quarterly Journal of Geological Society volume 5 and Lyell volume 6 1850 ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


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