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Definition of Breccia
1. Noun. A rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand.
Definition of Breccia
1. n. A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
Definition of Breccia
1. Noun. (geology) A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material. ¹
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Definition of Breccia
1. a type of rock [n -S] : BRECCIAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Breccia
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Literary usage of Breccia
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1. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"breccia vein, rock ; 6, disseminated deposit in limestone. (After Buckley.)
Stockwork.—A stockwork is a mass of rock cut by a large number of intersecting ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"The tool was found alone on February 11, 1880, in the breccia, ... It was found
alone, in the breccia, in the eighth foot-level below the Granular ..."
3. What Rome was Built with: A Description of the Stones Employed in Ancient by Mary Winearls Porter (1907)
"The green conglomerate-breccia of Egypt, also known as Universal breccia,3 although
so frequently employed by the Egyptians and later by the Romans, ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"Ores in Contact breccia This second type of ore is found from the Holbrook to
the Lowell, ... The breccia, as has been explained, is highly silicified, ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1902)
"somewhat similar breccia, which in this latter case forms the summits of the ...
As a rule, the Santa Eulalia breccia contains rounded fragments of ..."
6. The Atoll of Funafuti: Borings Into a Coral Reef and the Results, Being the by Thomas George Bonney (1904)
"The case at the SW end of Telele, where an outlier of this breccia attains a ...
The general aspect of this part of the breccia is shown in the upper figure ..."
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