Crossword-Solution: BRECCIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Breccia | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRECCIA | anagram | ACERBIC |
We have 2 clues for the answer “BRECCIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A composite rock. | 1 answer |
| Type of rock | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BRECCIA (5)
The evidence is complete; the masses of breccia taken from the cave, with the various soils, implements, and bones carefully kept in place, put this progress beyond a doubt.
The author of “Thoughts on the Universe” has something in common with these, but he appears also to have a good deal about him of what we call the humorist; that is, an individual with a somewhat heterogeneous personality, in which various distinctly human elements are mixed together, so as to form a kind of coherent and sometimes pleasing whole, which is to a symmetrical character as a breccia is to a mosaic.
The formation I call Porphyritic Conglomerates is the most important and most developed one in Chili: from a great number of sections I find it a true coarse conglomerate or breccia, which by every step in a slow gradation passes into a fine claystone-porphyry; the pebbles and cement becoming porphyritic till at last all is blended in one compact rock.
The lowest layer is a breccia.4 The matrix is sand of a reddish color, containing many pieces of rock known as red-grit and some pieces of quartz.
But the relics found in the breccia _a,_ and the upper portion of the cave earth _b,_ denote a sudden advance in culture.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).