flysch

See also: Flysch

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɪʃ/

Noun

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.

Translations

series of sandstones and schists

• Esperanto: fliŝo
• French: flysch (fr) m
• German: Flysch
• Greek: φλύσχης (el) m (flýschis)
• Serbo-Croatian: fliš (sh)

1. flysch

References

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