Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a name given in Switzerland to an important geological formation belonging in part to the Miocene and in part to a position intermediate between the Eocene and the Miocene.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See
Chart ofgeology .
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- noun geology A shallow
deposit ofsandstone ,shale andconglomerate in front of a risingmountain chain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When they could get it to work properly, it would only last about 1 hour, then it would revert back to being slower than frozen molasse.
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On vous traite de fainéasse, de molasse, de mollusque, de marmotte, de bon a rien tout ca parce que vous n'avez l'coeur a rien forcement vous etes crevé ... donc vous dormez dormez dormez et peu importe tous les effors que vous fournirez ... vous dormirez encore et toujours jusqu'a carrement tout rater de ce que vous entreprendrez ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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The very recent secondary rocks everywhere present analogous phenomena; the molasse of the Pays de Vaud contains a fetid shelly limestone, and the cerite limestone of the banks of the Seine is sometimes mixed with sandstone.
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These two rocks form a contrast no less striking than the molasse (bur-stone) of the Pays de Vaud, with the calcareous limestone of the Jura.
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The second formation is composed of fibrous gypsum, placed either in the molasse or new sandstone, or between this and the upper limestone.
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Mortillet or cognisance of his views, he suggested in 1859 that the lake-basins were not of pre-glacial date, but had been scooped out by ice during the glacial period, the excavation having for the most part been effected in Miocene sandstone, provincially called, on account of its softness, "molasse."
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The argillaceous and lignite-bearing strata, more than 100 feet in thickness, rest unconformably on highly inclined and sometimes vertical Miocene molasse.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The very recent secondary rocks everywhere present analogous phenomena; the molasse of the
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The second formation is composed of fibrous gypsum, placed either in the molasse or new sandstone, or between this and the upper limestone.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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These two rocks form a contrast no less striking than the molasse (bur-stone) of the Pays de Vaud, with the calcareous limestone of the Jura.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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