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‖ molasse Geol.|mɔlas|
Also 8 mollasse.
[F. molasse.]
A soft coherent greenish sandstone of Miocene age, esp. that peculiar to the region between the Alps and the Jura.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 99 Mollasse, a grey or yellowish grey stone, found in the neighbourhood of Lausanne, and various parts of France. 1827R. Jameson tr. Cuvier's Theory Earth 97 Certain lignites and molasses do in fact contain them [i.e. fossil remains of terrestrial mammifera]. 1886J. Geikie Outl. Geol. 351 The lower portions of this Molasse pertain to the Oligocene. |