breccia

• The diamond-bearing lamprophyre breccia is coincident with a crudely circular magnetic low as defined by an airborne magnetic survey. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• In the British Museum is an Egyptian mace-head of red breccia, which is identical in shape and size with one from Babylonia (also in the museum) bearing the name of Shargani-shar-ali (i.e. Sargon, King of Agade), one of the earliest Chaldцan monarchs, who must have lived about the same time as the Egyptian kings of the IId-IIId Dynasties, to which period the Egyptian mace-head may also be approximately assigned. —  History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery
• A breccia is a rock made up of angular pebbles or fragments of other rocks. —  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• It may also be called a breccia, for it is composed of black fragments, larger or smaller, derived from other rocks, whose angular shape indicates that they have not travelled far from the spots where they occur. —  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• They are generally of a coarse breccia, the component parts principally limestone; abundance of nummulites. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

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