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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

Bed 7, blackish-grey, much indurated, calcareous mudstone, with extraneous particles of unequal size; the whole being in parts finely brecciated.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

S., good sections of these old brecciated alluvia occur.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward

The blue ground of S. Africa may be 163 the result of the serpentinization of several such rocks, and although now both brecciated and serpentinized some of these may have been the original matrix.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

In one part of the mine, wooden props support an overhanging ledge almost entirely composed of feldspar, which underneath passes into the gray brecciated quartz, which again grades into a white, more compact quartz rock.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various