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breccia

[ UK /bɹˈɛksiɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand

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  • 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.
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