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Sedimentary breccia may be formed by submarine debris flows. Turbidites occur as fine-grained peripheral deposits to sedimentary breccia flows. [12] In a karst terrain, a collapse breccia may form due to collapse of rock into a sinkhole or in cave development. [13] [14] Collapse breccias also form by dissolution of underlying evaporite beds. [15]
Breccia is typically silicified and consists of many smaller irregular rock fragments. Breccia pipe cutting Eday Sandstone, Ophir Bay, Orkney. A breccia pipe, also referred to as a chimney, is a mass of breccia (rock composed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix), often in an irregular and cylindrical shape.
Collapse breccia pipes are vertical cylindrical bodies of broken sedimentary rock (breccia), down-dropped into caverns in underlying massive limestone. Uraninite , a reduced uranium ore mineral, accumulated within the permeable column of broken rock, forming a cylindrical and vertical (and stationary) rather than tabular and sub-horizontal (and ...
The slump blocks were then covered with the rubble or breccia. The entire bolide event, from initial impact to the termination of breccia deposition, lasted only a few hours or days. In the perspective of geological time, the 1.2 km (0.75 mi) breccia was an instantaneous deposit. The crater was then buried by additional sedimentary beds that ...
Bob Thompson Peak is composed of siliceous volcanic rock, [11] breccia, tuff, granite, hornfels, and limestone. [4] The mountain is located on the hanging wall of the regional, northwest-trending Cochise thrust fault. The movement of this fault transported Jurassic units of collapse-breccia from the Montezuma Caldera over younger Huachuca granite.
The breccia consists of fragments of white to dark gray cherty material, quartz-rich sandstone, diagenetic cherty nodules, and stromatolitic limestone and is intensively silicified. The hydrothermal alteration, which created this breccia, has been dated to have occurred about 98.2 ± 2.6 million years ago using the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar method. [3] [4] [8]
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Fault breccia of the Keystone Thrust, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada. Fault breccia, or tectonic breccia, is a breccia (a rock type consisting of angular clasts) that was formed by tectonic forces. Fault breccia is a tectonite formed by localized zone of brittle deformation (a fault zone) in a rock.