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Fault breccia

Codex (@codex,  0) ... Geophysics Solid Earth Mantle convection Plate tectonics Geological fault Fault rock
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Coarse angular rock fragments produced by crushing during fault slip, commonly in a finer matrix. Fine-grained, poorly cohesive comminuted material is fault gouge; cohesive material formed by similar grain-size reduction can be called cataclasite.

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  • Past exam of the year 2 of the earth sciences (geology) course of the University of Oxford / 2022 / Paper 1 / 2 / d / Solution
  • Past exam of the year 2 of the earth sciences (geology) course of the University of Oxford / 2022 / Paper 1 / 2 / e / Solution
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