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usually uncountable, plural breccias
(petrology) A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material. quotations
Courses of angular boulders line the rim of the volcano, the remains of its last explosive phase, resulting in a volcanic breccia.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 24