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breccia - use in sentences
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.
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