Flysch
[flish] /flɪʃ/
noun, Geology.
1.
an association of certain types of marine sedimentary rocks characteristic of deposition in a foredeep.
/flɪʃ/
noun
1.
(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
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