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‖ Wildflysch Geol.|ˈvɪltflɪʃ| Also wildflysch. [Ger. (F. J. Kaufmann 1871, in B. Studer Index der Petrogr. (1872) 258): see Flysch.] Flysch containing large, irregularly distributed blocks and occupying beds that are distorted.
1929P. G. H. Boswell tr. Heritsch's 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. 1960Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LXXI. 878/2 The general aspect of Wildflysch forcibly suggests submarine slumping and sliding on a large scale. 1963[see Famennian a.]. 1981A. 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. |