Definition of "intraclast"
intraclast
noun
plural intraclasts
(geology) A sediment formed by the redeposition of material erodes from an original deposit.
Quotations
The bodies of these beds typically show coarse-tail reverse grading of pumice and sedimentary intraclasts or coarse-tail normal grading of all clasts, although grading is absent in some of the intraclast-rich breccia beds.
2000, Philip Martin Bethke, Ancient Lake Creede: Its Volcano-tectonic Setting, History of Sedimentation, and Relation to Mineralization in the Creede Mining District
They are regarded as distal turbidites and are interbedded with bioclastic limestones and massive breccioid limestones containing blocks of coral colonies and intraclasts that are regarded as proximal turbidites.
2007, Bernhard Hubmann, Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003