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Webster 1913 Edition

(flēsh)

Noun.

[A Swiss word, fr. G.

fliessen

to flow, melt.]

(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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Flysch ‎(uncountable)

(geology) A set of tertiary strata in the Alps.
- 2004, Richart Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 84:
  The lower part of the rock section over which you have just climbed is the Flysch: dark grey slaty rocks that come out in small shards if you pick at them with your fingers.

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flysch ‎(plural flysches)

(geology) A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
- 1934, Gerald E. Schultz, Geology and Paleontology of a Late Pleistocene Basin in Southwest Kansas, page 232:
  Most of the structures and textures observed at Ponkapoag section have been noted in turbitite and flysch sequences.