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breccia Definition

brec·cia (brec̸hē ə, bres̸h-)

noun

rock consisting of sharp-cornered bits of fragmented rock, cemented together by sand, clay, or lime

Etymology: It, fragments of stone < Fr brèche: see brash

breccia Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • cement: It is really a fault zone bounded by two major faults and filled with a well cemented fault breccia.
  • contain: The passage containing the breccia floods and drains after severe storms in the area.
  • indurate: Both methods become difficult to implement if large boulders have to be propped up or if explosives have to be used on indurated breccias.

Preposition: in

cave: Rock breccias in many caves may not conform to normal modes of sediment deposition.

Adjective modifier

  • Permian: Much rarer are pebbles of porphyry of a type that can be matched in the Permian breccia of Dawlish.
  • Many: Many bone breccias may show distinct layering but rock breccias in caves may not conform to such a simple regime.
  • red: It emerges between two cliffs of red breccia, a gravelly rock laid down by floods some 250 million years ago.
  • uncemented: A priori, one would guess that bone in some uncemented breccias will have witnessed the passage of only small amounts of water.
  • coarse: It is a coarse breccia, that is a stone in which are embedded angular stone fragments.

Modifies a noun

  • pipe: Eight samples only come from the breccia pipes and are representative chip, panel or channel samples.
  • outcrop: Locally quarried breccia is the predominant material, once quarried from the breccia outcrop on Loton deer park.

Noun used with modifier

  • fault: It is really a fault zone bounded by two major faults and filled with a well cemented fault breccia.
  • bone: Many bone breccias may show distinct layering but rock breccias in caves may not conform to such a simple regime.
  • cave: If a different type of rock overlies a cavernous limestone, then clasts or boulders of both could become mixed in a cave breccia.
  • rock: Rock breccias in many caves may not conform to normal modes of sediment deposition.
  • limestone: The rock lies close to the others which are more clearly limestone breccias and it acts as a reasonable marker horizon.