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What is a brecciation?

What is a brecciation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) The formation of breccia such as by external shock
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The available evidence suggests the possibility of karst dissolution, collapse and brecciation, followed by lithification.
Progressive intrusion and hydraulic fracturing gave rise to local brecciation of the banded rocks.
The mineralization appears to be located at the intersection of two regional structural trends where deformation has produced intense cataclasis and brecciation.
The paucity of outcrop in the Acraman depression indicates that the bedrock beneath the depression is strongly disrupted by brecciation and jointing.
Locally, intense brecciation gave rise to angular vein quartz fragments enveloped by a matrix of massive hematitic rock.
The host lithology is a dolomitic unit that has undergone stylolitic quartz and manganese veining and brecciation.

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