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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Turbidite (Gorgoglione Flysch), Miocene, South Italy...
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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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    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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    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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