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breccia
[ brech-ee-uh, bresh- ]
noun
- rock composed of angular fragments of older rocks melded together.
breccia
/ ˈ²ú°ùÉ›³Ùʃɪə /
noun
- a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
breccia
/ ²ú°ùÄ•³¦³ó′ē-É™,²ú°ùÄ•³¦³ó′ə,²ú°ùÄ•²õ³ó′- /
- A rock composed of angular fragments embedded in a fine-grained matrix. Breccias form from explosive volcanic ejections, the compaction of talus, or plate tectonic processes. Breccias are different from conglomerates in that the fragments they contain are angular instead of rounded.
Derived Forms
- ˈ²ú°ù±ð³¦³¦¾±ËŒ²¹³Ù±ð»å, adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of breccia1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of breccia1
Example Sentences
Most of the ejected material is called breccia - angular rocks cemented by clay.
Findings suggest it formed from chunks of other rocks cemented together - like broken pieces from multiple jigsaws mashed together - in what is known as breccia.
Instead, the pair found breccias — mash-ups of different types of older rock, melted and fused together in the violence of titanic meteorite strikes.
The Pinnacles’ high peaks are mostly volcanic breccia, which is more vulnerable to crumbling, a different sort of challenge.
The most habitable meteorite samples analyzed appeared to be made of a rock type called regolith breccia.
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