brecciate
Americanverb (used with object)
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The host rocks, which commonly include the stock itself and the surrounding country rocks, are normally highly fractured and brecciated.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
A stratum, eighty feet thick, of hard and very compact impure whitish limestone, weathering bright red, with included layers brecciated and re- cemented.
From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles
I'll be bound that if we went down there we should find 'pipes' of soapy brecciated rock.
From King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Henry Rider
Very often displacement of the walls again takes place, and the infilling or “veinstone” is torn apart and brecciated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
For mantels, fire-places, porch pillars, and like ornamental purposes, however, our variegated, rich colored and veined or brecciated marbles were in use some time before exterior walls were made from them.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various
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