Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
brechóides
English translation:
breccioid
Portuguese term
brechóides
| 4 +3 | breccioid |
Luiza Modesto
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| 4 | brechiform |
Lucio C P Soluchinsky
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| 4 | brecciated |
sula (X)
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| 1 | breach-like / breachy |
Fabio Descalzi
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Jul 19, 2008 14:39: Luiza Modesto Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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breccioid
Breccia: Breccia (pronounced /ˈbrɛtʃiə, ˈbrɛʃiə/, Italian: breach) is a rock composed of angular fragments of rocks or minerals in a matrix, that is a cementing material, that may be similar or different in composition to the fragments. A breccia may have a variety of different origins, as indicated by the named types including sedimentary breccia, tectonic breccia, igneous breccia, impact breccia and hydrothermal breccia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breccia
In the sesquioxide zone, the breccioid fragments and materials cut by rhizoidal ... In contrast, fillings between breccioid fragments and inside rhizoidal ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618202001416
massive breccioid banks, and then slightly nodular. marly limestones organized in upwardly ... eous nodular limestones, often breccioid. The upper part ...
www.springerlink.com/index/7638H86206151940.pdf
1995), producing breccioid mixed facies with an overall granodioritic composition characterized by the simultaneous presence of K-feldspar megacrysts with ...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?JG990027
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breach-like / breachy
http://ingenieriageologica.mforos.com/1174391/7075970-excava...
Brechoíde: Con aspecto de brecha. Supongo que se referirá a que se presenta como cantos de caliza arenosa envueltos en una matriz. Puede ser debido a que está muy fracturada y las juntas están rellenas o alteradas, a zonas más margosas y alteradas que engloban zonas de caliza más sana...
See also:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/breach
Some Google search results show "brechoid", but that seems to be a bad translation into English. So I would suggest BREACH-LIKE or BREACHY
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brechiform
The brechiform nature of the rock caused him to think that the limestone had been broken, and that the modifying and igneous agent had afterwards penetrated ...
The ferrodiorite is brechiform, sheared and cut by meltrock. dykes and persisted to the end of the hole at 495 m. The magnetic anomaly was largely explained ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=YI8KAAAAIAAJ...
www.manicouaganminerals.com/i/pdf/ManicouaganProjectTechnicalReport20041108.pdf -
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