Flysch

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flysch

[flīsh] (geology) Deposits of dark, fine-grained, thinly bedded sandstone shales and of clay, thought to be deposited by turbidity currents and originally defined as rock formations on the northern and southern borders of the Alps.

Flysch

a thick sequence of marine sedimentary rocks, primarily detrital in origin, characterized by a cyclic alternation of several lithologic varieties of graded beds with finer grains toward the top, regardless of mineralogical composition. Flysch consists of many thin cycles that are only several centimeters to several decimeters deep (Figure 1). The cycles are also called cyclothems, cyclosomes, or multiple beds and are sometimes inaccurately referred to as rhythms.

Figure 1. A flysch cycle, or multiple bed: (I) aleurolite, (II) light marl with dark fucoid patches, (III) dark clays. The base of a new cycle, or multiple bed, is in the upper part of the figure.

The cycles are formed by two to four beds. The underlying beds consist of granulites, such as sandstone, aleurolite, and cal-carenite, and often display cross-bedded and irregular sediments; the overlying beds are composed of pelites. Hieroglyphs of various shapes and origins are typical on the lower surface of the cycles. Some of the hieroglyphs are the impressions of irregularities on the floor of the body of water; the irregularities resulted from the erosional action of short-lived turbidity currents and from the vital activity of various animals, mostly worms, that crawled along the bottom. Fucoids, which resemble algae in shape and are at least as characteristic of flysch as are hieroglyphs, owe their origin to worms.

The cyclic nature of flysch is caused by specific features of the accumulation of sediment, that is, by more or less periodic turbidity currents.

Flysch is a typical geosynclinal formation that marks the pre-orogenic phase of the development of eugeosynclines, miogeo-synclines, or both. In the preorogenic phase, a cordillera emerged along a flysch trough. A cordillera is a long chain of islands on the slope of which wildflysch and coarse-grained wildflysch formed. Wildflysch is associated with submarine landslide formations, and coarse-grained wildflysch is enriched with conglomerates and sandstone. Away from the source, the wildflysch is typically replaced by flysch, which in turn is replaced by immature flysch and semiflysch, or subflysch (Figure 2). In a vertical sequence of geologic formations, flysch occupies an intermediate position between slate formation and molasses. In folded regions that arose at the sites of geosynclines, strongly dislocated flysch deposits constitute the outer part, or the externides.

Figure 2. Flysch in a sequence of adjacent formations

Flysch has been identified in the Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. The Paleozoic deposits are represented by Carboniferous flysch in the Urals. The Mesozoic deposits include Triassic flysch in the Crimea and Jurassic and Cretaceous flysch in the Caucasus and the Alps. Cenozoic flysch is found in the Carpathians.

Deposits of petroleum and mineral water are correlated in time with flysch. Carbonate flysch and subflysch are sometimes good raw materials for cement. Such flysches are found, for example, in the Novorossiisk region.

REFERENCES

Vassoevich, N. B. Flish i metodika ego izucheniia. Leningrad-Moscow, 1948.
Vassoevich, N. B. Usloviia obrazovaniia flisha. Leningrad-Moscow, 1951.
Khvorova, I. V. Flishevaia i nizhnemolassovaia formatsiia Iuzhnogo Urala. Moscow, 1961.
Bouma, A. H. Sedimentology of Some Flysch Deposits. Amsterdam, 1962.

N. B. VASSOEVICH

单词	flysch
释义	flysch enUK Flysch (flɪʃ) n (Geological Science) (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[Swiss German] flysch (flɪʃ) n. an association of certain types of marine sedimentary rocks characteristic of deposition in a foredeep. [1845–55; < German < Swiss German flīsch referring to such deposits in the Swiss Alps] Flysch enUK flysch [flīsh] (geology) Deposits of dark, fine-grained, thinly bedded sandstone shales and of clay, thought to be deposited by turbidity currents and originally defined as rock formations on the northern and southern borders of the Alps. Flysch a thick sequence of marine sedimentary rocks, primarily detrital in origin, characterized by a cyclic alternation of several lithologic varieties of graded beds with finer grains toward the top, regardless of mineralogical composition. Flysch consists of many thin cycles that are only several centimeters to several decimeters deep (Figure 1). The cycles are also called cyclothems, cyclosomes, or multiple beds and are sometimes inaccurately referred to as rhythms. Figure 1. A flysch cycle, or multiple bed: (I) aleurolite, (II) light marl with dark fucoid patches, (III) dark clays. The base of a new cycle, or multiple bed, is in the upper part of the figure. The cycles are formed by two to four beds. The underlying beds consist of granulites, such as sandstone, aleurolite, and cal-carenite, and often display cross-bedded and irregular sediments; the overlying beds are composed of pelites. Hieroglyphs of various shapes and origins are typical on the lower surface of the cycles. Some of the hieroglyphs are the impressions of irregularities on the floor of the body of water; the irregularities resulted from the erosional action of short-lived turbidity currents and from the vital activity of various animals, mostly worms, that crawled along the bottom. Fucoids, which resemble algae in shape and are at least as characteristic of flysch as are hieroglyphs, owe their origin to worms. The cyclic nature of flysch is caused by specific features of the accumulation of sediment, that is, by more or less periodic turbidity currents. Flysch is a typical geosynclinal formation that marks the pre-orogenic phase of the development of eugeosynclines, miogeo-synclines, or both. In the preorogenic phase, a cordillera emerged along a flysch trough. A cordillera is a long chain of islands on the slope of which wildflysch and coarse-grained wildflysch formed. Wildflysch is associated with submarine landslide formations, and coarse-grained wildflysch is enriched with conglomerates and sandstone. Away from the source, the wildflysch is typically replaced by flysch, which in turn is replaced by immature flysch and semiflysch, or subflysch (Figure 2). In a vertical sequence of geologic formations, flysch occupies an intermediate position between slate formation and molasses. In folded regions that arose at the sites of geosynclines, strongly dislocated flysch deposits constitute the outer part, or the externides. Figure 2. Flysch in a sequence of adjacent formations Flysch has been identified in the Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. The Paleozoic deposits are represented by Carboniferous flysch in the Urals. The Mesozoic deposits include Triassic flysch in the Crimea and Jurassic and Cretaceous flysch in the Caucasus and the Alps. Cenozoic flysch is found in the Carpathians. Deposits of petroleum and mineral water are correlated in time with flysch. Carbonate flysch and subflysch are sometimes good raw materials for cement. Such flysches are found, for example, in the Novorossiisk region. REFERENCES Vassoevich, N. B. Flish i metodika ego izucheniia. Leningrad-Moscow, 1948. Vassoevich, N. B. Usloviia obrazovaniia flisha. Leningrad-Moscow, 1951. Khvorova, I. V. Flishevaia i nizhnemolassovaia formatsiia Iuzhnogo Urala. Moscow, 1961. Bouma, A. H. Sedimentology of Some Flysch Deposits. Amsterdam, 1962. N. B. VASSOEVICH
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