How to Use breccia in a Sentence

breccia

noun

• The breccias are fragments of older rocks broken up over the years by meteorites hitting the moon.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• Impact melt breccia is a type of lunar rock formed from asteroids striking the surface of the moon.
  — Fox News, 9 July 2020
• Granger and his team studied the breccia, the concrete-like substance where the fossils are embedded, and used his method to determine the new dates of the fossils.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2022
• But excavating the fossils from the concretelike breccia was not a quick process.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2016
• Small rock fragments are sometimes fused under the intense heat and pressure of the impacts, forming breccias.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• At an impact angle of 45 degrees, for instance, about 30 percent of the water was captured by a glasslike substance and the mix of impact melt and rock fragments called breccia.
  — James Gorman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• The resulting debris—including small rock chunks, breccias of rock fragments fused together, and glass forged in the high heat of the impact—contained water trapped within.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• The most habitable meteorite samples analyzed appeared to be made of a rock type called regolith breccia.
  — Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
• The next two hours of our afternoon were spent pacing back and forth along the base of Machete Ridge, a colossal fin of volcanic breccia, growing increasingly frustrated as the sun began to sink.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 25 Feb. 2020
• The cave consisted of breccia: rocks, minerals and fossilized teeth that landslides or water events form when crushing sediment into a cave's walls.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
• The Pinnacles’ high peaks are mostly volcanic breccia, which is more vulnerable to crumbling, a different sort of challenge.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
• This March, researchers analyzing an Apollo 14 breccia (a rock type composed of other rock fragments welded together) determined that one of those pieces might not be a moon rock at all.
  — Erica Jawin, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• The astronauts found two main types of rocks at their landing: basalts and breccias, according to the Universities Space Research Association.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
• The Neanderthal’s signature, meanwhile, was more similar to the surrounding breccia.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019
• The clasts are commonly angular producing a breccia-like appearance.
  — Brian Romans, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2008

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024