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Term: flysch basin
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Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rocks that is deposited in a deep marine facies in the foreland basin of a developing orogen. Flysch is formed under deep marine circumstances, in a quiet and low-energetic depositional environment. [Wikipedia]

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