breccia

How to use breccia in a sentence

• The specimen of this breccia is attached to a plate of granular quartz, and may possibly have been part of a vein.

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] | Phillip Parker King

• It was discovered by chance in 1858, having been until then hermetically sealed by a mass of limestone breccia.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 | Various

• Lapping against it, at the mouth of the river, is a curious formation of magnesian breccia.

  Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

• Below this were strata of trachitic breccia and augite; the formation was then seamy to an unknown depth.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 | Various

• What is the difference between trappean breccia and trappean conglomerate?

  Geology | James Geikie