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Cataclasis

Cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the progressive fracturing and comminution of existing rock)

📖 Definitions of "Cataclasis"

noun
  1. 1

    Cataclastic rock (a type of metamorphic rock that has been wholly or partly formed by the progressive fracturing and comminution of existing rock)

  2. 2

    A process of formation of such rock.

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