breccia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   rock composed of angular fragments cemented together in a finer-grained matrix

   The cliff exposed a band of volcanic breccia filled with sharp fragments.

Borrowed from Italian breccia ("rubble, broken stone"). Geologists adopted the term for rock made of angular broken fragments, contrasting it with conglomerate, whose fragments are rounded.

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