Breccia

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4495.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4495. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Meteors

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A type of rock composed of small, shattered and crushed (and sometimes melted) angular fragments cemented together in a finer-grained material. Breccias are produced by impacts. The shock from the impact of even a meter-sized body on a planetary surface may be sufficient to compact and weld surface material into breccias. Lunar highland rock sampled by the crews of Apollo missions proved to cons...

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