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Fig. 3

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. 3

Flysch breccia consisting of exotic crystalline blocks and pebbles embedded in a fine-grained dark clay-silt matrix: supposedly the product of submarine mass flow processes (Iberg-Mélange, Isentobel, Canton of Schwyz, Swiss coordinate grid: 2,699,720/1,208,065, see Letsch 2017 for more information on the geologically interesting Isentobel). Such deposits inspired Hans Schardt during the early 1890s to think of submarine landslides. For detailed descriptions of this breccia see Quereau (1893, 24), Bayer (1982, appendix, 309–311), and Trümpy (2006, 87–88)

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