Breccia

Breccia

Origin: Detrital/Clastic

Texture: Clastic; Coarse-grained (2 - 64 mm)

Composition: Quartz, Feldspar, Lithics

Color: Reddish brown

Misc: Angular clasts in a fine to medium grain matrix; Immature

Depositional Environment: Alluvial Fan or Glacial (unstratified till)





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