Lime gravel mixture, "decomposed limestone"
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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