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Fig. 2

From: On the pre-history of the turbidite concept: an Alpine perspective on occasion of the 70th anniversary of Kuenen’s 1948 landmark talk

Fig. 2

The relevant text passage wherein Gruner describes graded bedding in the Engi slates (Northhelvetic flysch of early Oligocene age) from the Glarus Alps and interprets it by episodic movements and subsequent sediment settling on the floor of the ante-diluvian Swiss sea. See text for a translation and the Electronic Supplementary Material for a transcription of the German original (from Gruner 1773, 31–32)

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