cataclasis

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English

Noun

cataclasis (plural cataclases)

  1. (geology) cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the progressive fracturing and comminution of existing rock)
  2. (geology) A process of formation of such rock.

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