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THE Numidian Flysch1–6 is a thick (1,000–3,000 m) alternating deposit of brown shales and highly quartzose coarse sandstones of Oligocene–early Miocene age that occupies the external part of the Riff-Tellian Atlas-Southern Apennines belt in the Southern Mediterranean (Fig. 1). Mineralogical composition, facies pattern and palaeocurrents indicate that this extensive large wedge of grain flow and slump deposits represents former continental rise sediments at the foot of the cratonal slope of the African Platform7,8.
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WEZEL, F. Numidian Flysch: an Oligocene—early Miocene Continental Rise Deposit off the African Platform. Nature 228, 275–276 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228275a0
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