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Definition of Brecciated
1. a. Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.
Definition of Brecciated
1. Verb. (past of brecciate) ¹
2. Adjective. (geology) Formed, or broken into breccia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brecciated
1. brecciate [v] - See also: brecciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brecciated
Literary usage of Brecciated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Ore Deposits for the Practical Miner: With Descriptions of Ore by James Philip Wallace (1908)
"brecciated Zones. — Zones of brecciation are generally produced by a severe
squeezing or ... It then becomes a mineralized or ore-bearing brecciated zone; ..."
2. Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Economic Geology by John Casper Branner, John Flesher Newsom (1900)
"brecciated structure produced by cementing of fractured materials. Fig. 25.—A
vein brecciated on one side and banded on the other. ..."
3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"there its true brecciated nature is conspicuously revealed by prominent blocks
of hardened sandstone. This band of breccia must in some places be 150 or 200 ..."
4. The Rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand by William Johnson Sollas, Alexander McKay (1905)
"The rock is auriferous, and at the time the specimen was collected a mass of
brecciated rhyolite was being worked for gold. As seen in mass this rock has ..."
5. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"These satellite fissures are also filled with brecciated masses strongly impregnated
with cinnabar. Ore is also extracted in this part of the mine from a ..."
6. The Student's Manual of Geology by Joseph Beete Jukes (1872)
"... Limestone ia a singularly diversified mass of limestone«, sometimes compact,
at others crystalline, brecciated, earthy, ..."
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