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cryptoflysch

cryptoflysch noun: any flysch-like material other than sandstone or schist which is found in similar formations.

Noun

cryptoflysch (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) Any flysch-like material other than sandstone or schist which is found in similar formations.
    • Particularly, the relation of magnetic anomalies and the upper part of formations characterized by cryptoflysch and richer accumulations of bituminous components with dissipated Fe-sulphides mineralization can be mentioned.1992, Geologica Carpathica - Volume 43, page 78
    • In the Apennines and the southern Alps, the “scaglia cinerea” and certain “scaglia rossa” facies correspond to metaflysch or cryptoflysch, and so on. In short, not one but several types of flysch (constituting a generation) are in the process of deposition at any given moment.2013, Jean Aubouin, Geosynclines, →ISBN, page 139

Origin of cryptoflysch

From crypto- + flysch.

Questions about cryptoflysch

What does cryptoflysch mean?
Cryptoflysch means any flysch-like material other than sandstone or schist which is found in similar formations.
What part of speech is cryptoflysch?
Cryptoflysch is a noun.

Words near cryptoflysch in the dictionary

  1. cryptofauna
  2. cryptofaunal
  3. cryptofax
  4. cryptofaxes
  5. cryptoflora
  6. cryptoflysch
  7. cryptoforest
  8. cryptoforestry
  9. cryptoforests
  10. cryptofunction
  11. cryptofunctions

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