Sentence examples for breccia a from inspiring English sources

It took her past delicate starburst-like speleothems, "fossil-bearing layers of breccia," a "perfectly still pool of water," and a row of "jagged teeth of rock," ending in the chamber with "fossils everywhere you look".

Field observations and laboratory friction experiments show that the active zone of the Atera fault includes a breccia with a relatively high friction coefficient that originated from the hangingwall granite.

In some locations, due to the abundance of xenoliths, the dike has the appearance of a limestone breccia in an igneous matrix.

Sometime later, asteroid impacts fused the breccia into a solid rock, before a final impact launched it into space.

The repeated impact history of a particular rock can result in a breccia welded either into a strong, coherent mass or into a weak, crumbly mixture in which the matrix consists of poorly aggregated or metamorphosed fragments.

Uranium deposits mineralise in 2,000-feet 2,000-feetcia" pipes, a geological feature common to the worldeepmous golden brecciaedimentary rock in the canyon.

Resting on the breccia was a thin discontinuous layer of organic clay.

Plat formation includes Pliocene Lahar, Crystalitic Tuffs and Andesitic Breccia with a thickness of 114 m (SKM 2005c).

The soil breccia has a uniform particle size of 2 to 5 mm and is well sorted.

The highest diversity of vertebrate fossils was found above a basal unconformity with Val d'Amour Formation volcanics, marked by fissure-fills and unstratified breccia representing a craggy, irregular palaeosurface that provided shelter for some fauna and sediment for rapid burial of skeletal remains.

Whereas the NWA 773 meteorite contains the OC lithology as clasts in a breccia, NWA 2977 is a 233-g stone consisting entirely of OC (Connolly et al. 2006).