Sentence examples for the breccia from inspiring English sources
noun
A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.
Sometime later, asteroid impacts fused the breccia into a solid rock, before a final impact launched it into space.
The Breccia Unit results from the Pleistocene extensional reactivation of a pre-existing Pliocene thrust.
Resting on the breccia was a thin discontinuous layer of organic clay.
In addition, the breccia pinches out laterally between the brown gouge and the hangingwall (Fig. 5a).
The breccia is composed of granulite blocks surrounded by eclogite-facies shear zones where eclogite constitutes about 50% by volume.
Within the faults, tar is present in the breccia of the fault cores, as well as in the surrounding fractured and faulted damage zones.
Outside the central uplift, Cretaceous layer is below the breccias.
The dacites are interpreted as submarine lavas and the breccias as associated autoclastic facies (hyaloclastite, autobreccia).
Bottom topography of the melt differs from the breccias topography slightly at the center.
The 1-mm-thick pseudotachylyte, found along the fault, cuts the breccias.
This radial behavior looks more obvious at the bottom of the breccias.
