Wildflyschn.
/ˈvɪltflɪʃ/ Geology.
Flysch containing large, irregularly distributed blocks and occupying beds that are distorted.
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1929 P. G. H. Boswell tr. Heritsch Nappe Theory Alps iv. 47 A great part of the sheared Flysch has the character of the Wildflysch: dark, puckered and highly micaceous marls with interbedded seams of sandstone, quartzite, limestones, breccias, conglomerates and exotic blocks.
1960 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 71 878/2 The general aspect of Wildflysch forcibly suggests submarine slumping and sliding on a large scale.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation x. 208 At Ben-Zireg near Colomb-Béchar..banks of Devonian rocks are enclosed in the Visean... They form a Wildflysch, resting on Fammenian lime~stones.
1981 A. Hallam Facies Interpretation iv. 82 A thick series of shallow-water carbonate platform deposits..are overlain by a wildflysch unit with a chaotic jumble of limestone blocks in a shaly matrix.
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