verb
- to break rock into angular fragments and cement them together to form breccia
Usage: geological
Examples
- The fault zone caused the limestone to brecciate into sharp fragments.
- Intense pressure can brecciate solid rock formations.
- The impact crater shows how meteorites can brecciate bedrock.
- Tectonic forces brecciated the granite along the fault line.
- The geologist studied how the sandstone had brecciated over time.