molasse in a sentence
Examples
- The hills consist of tilted molasse beds, erosional material transported from the mountains into their foreland . ]]
- This species is known from several dozen bones, found in Early Miocene strata of the Patagonian Molasse Formation.
- Stephanian age molasse deposits overlie the other Carboniferous rocks and are unrelated to the Hercynian ( Variscan ) orogeny.
- The region is divided into several structurally uplifted blocks, where extensively Molasse Basin ) and the Upper Rhine Graben.
- The Central Plateau is mainly composed of molasse, a sedimentary rock which formed at the bottom of the Tethys ocean.
- Such erosional material of a growing mountain chain is called molasse and has either a shallow marine or a continental facies.
- Between them there are hill countries, in the canton of Thurgau also the broad molasse ranges of Seer�cken and Ottenberg.
- The fossils of this species are known from several dozen bones, found in Early Miocene rocks of the Patagonian Molasse Formation.
- Afterwards, the highway enters the Molasse plateau of Freiburg Plateau, tackling in several stages a height difference of just over.
- The molasse can sometimes completely fill a foreland basin, creating a nearly flat depositional surface, that nonetheless remains a structural syncline.