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 Charles Darwin
The clay-slate, in its upper half, is frequently brecciated, the embedded angular fragments being of nearly the same nature with the paste. 2nd.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
It is in this gray brecciated quartz that the beryls are found.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
Another variety was of a dull- red colour, having a claystone brecciated basis, including specks of oxide of iron and of calcareous spar, and amygdaloidal with green earth: there were apparently several other varieties.
From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin
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