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UK
/bɹˈɛksiɐ/
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NOUN
- a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand
How To Use breccia In A Sentence
- The sub-horizontal fissures in the breccia are infilled with laminated shale of identical lithology to the overlying basal bed of the Blue Lias Formation.
- Howardites are polymict breccias composed of angular clasts of eucrites and diogenites welded together by pulverized mineral dust.
- It weights 751 grams and consists of breccia - sintered fragments of various minerals from lunar continents.
- Galena is also found as larger isolated octahedral crystals within the coarse calcite cement in breccias in the upper parts of the core.
- Is it all this broken-up breccia or is there, maybe, a big old finger of basalt sticking up that we could scramble right on down? THE FALLEN MAN
- A related group of achondrites, called mesosiderites, are brecciated and metamorphosed.
- Here colorless to yellow crusts of mimetite coat open spaces and coarse fragments in brecciated dacite.
- Test tell us that cell pressure can enhance Gypsum Breccia's anti - damage strength.
- The diamond-bearing lamprophyre breccia is coincident with a crudely circular magnetic low as defined by an airborne magnetic survey. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
- In this core, a 100m thick impact breccia underlies 50 cm of bedded dolomitic limestone with diverse planktic foraminiferal assemblages of zone CF1 that spans the last 300 ka of the Maastrichtian.