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Meanings of breccia in English
Usage of breccia in English
1
The vaulted ceiling was pointed, here, and inlaid with rows of coral-colored breccia.
2
No other bone of so great dimensions has since been discovered within the breccia.
3
The rock consisted of a calcareous breccia, with water-worn pebbles.
4
We then reached a small cavern ending in several fissures choked up with the breccia.
5
On the sides of canyons the breccia is carved by rain erosion to fantastic pinnacles.
6
These lavas are conformably associated with strata of breccia and of brown tuff containing lignite.
7
This refers to the discovery of recent and fossil species of animals in an Australian cave-breccia.
8
At one part we have breccia of altered marl or slate in quartz, and various amygdaloids.
9
There are pot-holes which have been filled with either a pudding or a breccia of quartz.
10
The volcanic breccia as well as chalk and limestone has been utilised for the habitation of man.
11
The house was a breccia of affections.
12
In some places I observed a breccia of quartz, with the fragments almost dissolved in a siliceous paste.
13
Below this were strata of trachitic breccia and augite; the formation was then seamy to an unknown depth.
14
Mr. Busk informs me that a precisely similar breccia, is found at Gibraltar, at approximately the same level.
15
Fitton, Dr., on calcareous breccia.
16
But these masses, which are the habitations of polypi, are only fragments imbedded in a breccia with a calcareous cement.
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