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 orogenic wedge of the Alps that was forming to the south. In geology, the name `molasse basin` is sometimes also used in a general sense for a syno.....
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(from the article `mountain`) As Europe was flexed down under the weight of the Alps thrust onto it, a foreland basin (see below) formed just north of the Alps: this is the ...
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