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Meanings of breccia in English

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sascab

Lime gravel mixture, "decomposed limestone"

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        1
        The vaulted ceiling was pointed, here, and inlaid with rows of coral-colored breccia.
        Roma eterna
        2
        No other bone of so great dimensions has since been discovered within the breccia.
        Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
        3
        The rock consisted of a calcareous breccia, with water-worn pebbles.
        Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
        4
        We then reached a small cavern ending in several fissures choked up with the breccia.
        Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
        5
        On the sides of canyons the breccia is carved by rain erosion to fantastic pinnacles.
        The Elements of Geology
        6
        These lavas are conformably associated with strata of breccia and of brown tuff containing lignite.
        Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete
        7
        This refers to the discovery of recent and fossil species of animals in an Australian cave-breccia.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        8
        At one part we have breccia of altered marl or slate in quartz, and various amygdaloids.
        Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
        9
        There are pot-holes which have been filled with either a pudding or a breccia of quartz.
        To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
        10
        The volcanic breccia as well as chalk and limestone has been utilised for the habitation of man.
        Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
        11
        The house was a breccia of affections.
        Fugitive pieces
        12
        In some places I observed a breccia of quartz, with the fragments almost dissolved in a siliceous paste.
        Volcanic Islands
        13
        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
        14
        Mr. Busk informs me that a precisely similar breccia, is found at Gibraltar, at approximately the same level.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        15
        Fitton, Dr., on calcareous breccia.
        Volcanic Islands
        16
        But these masses, which are the habitations of polypi, are only fragments imbedded in a breccia with a calcareous cement.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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