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rock made of rock, nature's collage of shattered things glued back together under pressure
means A coarse rock composed of sharp, angular fragments of older rocks cemented together in a finer matrix.
from Straight from Italian breccia, meaning "rubble" or "broken stone" — itself borrowed from a Germanic source related to the verb "to break" (a cousin of English breach and breakage). Geologists adopted the Italian quarry-and-mason's word in the 18th century, and it kept the rough, busted-up flavor of its origin.
- name origin
- Italian for broken or rubble
- angular clue
- sharp fragments mean they barely traveled before cementing
- impact proof
- meteorite strikes forge breccia in violent instants
- moon rock
- Apollo astronauts hauled lunar breccia home
- used as marble
- polished breccia decorates Roman temples and palaces
rio grande gorge breccia — fault breccia exposed in new mexico's rio grande gorge, formed by tectonic movement along the rio grande rift
jaramillo breccia — impact breccia in chihuahua, mexico, part of the bolide impact crater structure, 65 million years old
sudbury basin breccia — shock breccia in ontario, canada from the 1.85 billion year old sudbury impact event, world's oldest large impact crater