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Definition of Brecciations
1. brecciation [n] - See also: brecciation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brecciations
Literary usage of Brecciations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1904)
"In some areas the prominent deformations of the rocks arc those of fractures,
such as joints, faults, brecciations, etc. In other places the deformations ..."
2. Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government by Benjamin Lewis Rice (1897)
"The beauty of the " vandykes" and complicated crumpling and brecciations of this
rock in the ..."
3. Notes Accompanying the Lectures on Geology Applied to Mining: A Course Given by Eugene Thomas Hancock, Michigan Technological University (1910)
"The wide-spread dislocation and brecciations of the Joplin District have allowed
a commingling of the waters not only from different parts of the Boone ..."
4. The Greenstone Schist Areas of the Menominee and Marquette Regions of by George Huntington Williams, Roland Duer Irving (1890)
"27. Under the microscope this rock shows the effect of the me- FIG. 27—spheroidal
parting of aphanitic greenstone produced by brecciations; drawn out into ..."
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