Breccia

Tertiary breccia at Resting Springs Pass, Mojave Desert, California.

Original pavement of the Forum of Trajan in Rome

**Breccia** statue of the Ancient Egyptian goddess Tawaret.

Breccia^[1] is a type of rock formed of broken fragments of minerals or rock cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.^[2] The matrix may be similar to or different from the composition of the fragments.

Rocks formed by sticking together pieces of previous rocks (clasts) are called clastic rocks. There are two types of clastic rock: conglomerates and breccias. What divides these two categories is the amount of rounding. The particles that make up conglomerates are well rounded, whereas in breccias they are angular.

↑ Italian: meaning 'breach' pronounced 'brechia'
↑ "Glossary of Meteoritical Terms". meteorlab.com. 2003. Archived from the original on 25 December 2001. Retrieved 24 July 2012.

[1] Italian: meaning 'breach' pronounced 'brechia'

[2] "Glossary of Meteoritical Terms". meteorlab.com. 2003. Archived from the original on 25 December 2001. Retrieved 24 July 2012.

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