What's the difference between breccia and brecciated?
Breccia
Definition:
(n.) A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) This represents a major range extension of Miocene Hominoidea in Africa to latitude 20 degrees S. The holotype, a right mandibular corpus preserving the crowns of the P4-M3, partial crown and root of the P3, partial root of the canine, alveoli for all four incisors, and partial alveolus for the left canine, was found during paleontological explorations of karst-fill breccias in the Otavi region of northern Namibia.
(2) Fauna from other breccia blocks at Berg Aukas are of diverse ages, including the earlier part of the middle Miocene, the upper Miocene, Plio-Pleistocene and Holocene.
(3) Once you’ve got your edible samples, each representing a type of meteorite (eg rice cereal as meteoritic breccia), pop them in plastic bags for teams to study and write notes about, putting together short geological descriptions and sketches of their specimen.
Brecciated
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance.