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    The Carpathian Flysch Belt is an arcuate tectonic zone included in the megastructural elevation of the Carpathians on the external periphery of the mountain...
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    northern, portion of the orogenic belt is a Tertiary accretionary wedge of a so-called Flysch belt (the Carpathian Flysch Belt) created by rocks scraped off...
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    consuming the crust of Carpathian Flysch Basins caused the formation of the External West Carpathian accretionary wedge (Flysch Belt). Vladár, J. (Editor) 1982:...
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    near the North American Cordillera, the Alps, the Pyrenees and the Carpathians. Flysch consists of repeated sedimentary cycles with upwards fining of the...
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    Paleogene (possibly Miocene) age in the area. The belt is the accretionary wedge of the Carpathians. The Flysch Belt also contains a small volume of Cenozoic volcanic...
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    extension. The Outer Carpathians represent a externides of the Inner Carpathian crustal scale thick-skinned nappes. Carpathian Flysch Belt: represents Cretaceous-Miocene...
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    the Carpathian Flysch Belt. The Pieniny Klippen Belt is divided into numerous tectonic units, but only few of them occur throughout the entire belt. The...
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    Outer Subcarpathia (category Carpathians)
    Divisions of the Carpathians South-Moravian Carpathians Central Moravian Carpathians Slovak-Moravian Carpathians Carpathian Flysch Belt Western Beskids...
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  • single species, C. polonicus, from the Menilite Formation in the Carpathian Flysch Belt of Poland, in what was formerly the Paratethys Sea. It is one of...
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    carved out in sedimentary rock and its conglomerates which form the Carpathian Flysch Belt. High annual rainfall is caused by the air forced up by the mountains...
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    building the Alpine mountain belt further to the north and the opening of the Tyrrhenian basin to the west. Carpathian Flysch Belt in Bohemia, Slovakia, Poland...
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  • Eastern Carpathians consist of two main paleogeographic and structural units. From east to west, they are the inner crystalline zone and the outer Flysch zone...
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    Orava Highlands (category Mountain ranges of the Western Carpathians)
    Geologically the highlands are composed of Carpathian flysch and the limestone unique to the Pieniny Klippen Belt. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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    began. The Adriatic Sea is a carbonate platform structural belt with Mesozoic-Paleogene flysch, chert, and limestone superimposed on it. Cenozoic Paleogene...
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    are found: the Helvetic nappes, the Penninic nappes (as the Rhenodanubian Flysch Zone) and the Eastern Alps (as the Northern Limestone Alps). North of the...
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    of an orogenic system that is composed of the Alpine, Carpathian, and Dinaride orogenic belts. Its territory can be divided into five geotectonic units...
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    geology. He studied the Klippen and Flysch belt of the Western Carpathians, but also Central Western Carpathians and especially the Subtatric nappes....
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    in the Eastern Carpathians, between the spa towns of Băile Tușnad and Balvanyos. Ciomadul lies at the southeastern end of the Carpathian volcanic chain...
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    environment, to the north of the Klippen Belt. The Outer Flysch Carpathians formed after the main Carpathian Orogeny in the Late Cretaceous, showing synorogenic...
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    belt. In the early stages, the foreland basin is said to be underfilled. During this stage, deep water and commonly marine sediments, known as flysch...
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  • process started when sediments accreted onto the Calabrian block while flysch was deposited in the foreland basins. The Sardinia block then underwent...
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    Piotruś (category Mountains of the Western Carpathians)
    within the outer part of the Carpathians, which is part of the Alpine orogenic belt. The Outer Carpathians fold and thrust belt, is subdivided into several...
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    hydrocarbons and coal since the 19th Century. The zone extends from the flysch on the north to the Moesian Platform on the south. The zone is marked by...
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    structural zone belonging to the Carpathian sector of the Alpide belt, and separates the Southern Carpathian and the Central Carpathian. While the Pliensbachian-Toarcian...
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    UNESCO Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe. It is also part of the European Green Belt, which serves as a retreat for endangered...
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    northeast, southward dipping and internally thrust Cenozoic foreland deposits (flysch and molasse) are found. This Bavarian and Swiss foreland basin is called...
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    cover sequence of Upper Cretaceous flysch sediments. a narrow band of flysch in the south. This fairly thick flysch sequence was also deposited in the...
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    with upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) flysch and molasse sediments. The Namurian is characterized by flysch, in the Westphalian this gradually grades...
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    Cretaceous periods. The peaks are composed of limestone, while the slopes of flysch. The northern section south of Vau i Dejës, the mountains reaches an altitude...
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    of volcanic rock in the Almaden Syncline. The lower Carboniferous has a flysch facies along the southern boundary of the zone, and also in the San Vitero...
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