How to Use breccia in a Sentence
breccia
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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
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Impact melt breccia is a type of lunar rock formed from asteroids striking the surface of the moon.
—Fox News, 9 July 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most habitable meteorite samples analyzed appeared to be made of a rock type called regolith breccia.
—Nikk Ogasa, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Neanderthal’s signature, meanwhile, was more similar to the surrounding breccia.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 10 July 2019
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The clasts are commonly angular producing a breccia-like appearance.
—Brian Romans, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2008
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