flysch

From German fließen (“to flow, to melt”).

• IPA^(key): /flɪʃ/

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flysch (plural flysches)

1. (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.

1. flysch

• “flysch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.