Sentence examples for breccia from inspiring English sources

There was a thin layer of a type of rock known as breccia, which forms from the smashed-up material launched out of a crater.

A second class of breccia has clasts that are not related to their cement and do not form in place.

For example, shallow marine limestone deposits commonly have thin bands of boulder-, cobble-, and pebble-size carbonate clasts (edgewise conglomerate or breccia beds) that are generated when storm waves erode and redeposit carbonate mud layers.

In one class of breccia, clast material, breccia formation, and cement are all closely related in time.

There are three categories of breccia: sedimentary, pyroclastic or igneous, and cataclastic.

Rock types include volcanic breccia, tuff, basalt, andesite, and rhyolite.

Her argon-argon dating of the local breccias has now confirmed that.

A brief treatment of breccias follows.

Sometimes the term rudite (or rudaceous) is used to collectively refer to both breccias and conglomerates.

A number of classification schemes have been proposed to further subdivide conglomerates and breccias.

In a strict sense, epiclastic conglomerates and breccias are the only true sedimentary rocks, because they alone are produced by weathering.