Outcrop
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An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
Outcrop of volcanic rock in Germany
Serrote Branco outcrop in Caicó, Brazil
Precambrian outcrop in Finland
Granite outcrops at Silesian Stones Mountain in southwestern Poland
Molasse basin
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The Molasse basin is a foreland basin north of the Alps which formed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The basin formed as a result of the flexure of the European plate under the weight of the
The Bavarian Alps rise from the green hills of the Molasse basin. The hills consist of tilted molasse beds, erosional material transported from the mountains into their foreland.
Alternating grey fluviatile sands and red silty marls of the Lower Freshwater Molasse at Wallenried, Switzerland.