cataclastic
About 0.04 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective describing a type of metamorphic rock that has undergone shearing and granulation by high mechanical stress
Similar words
granoblastic clastic metamorphous volcaniclastic pyrometamorphic vitroclastic xenomorphic granophyric allochemical porphyritic
Often followed by
flow deformation rocks texture and metamorphism textures zones effects structure
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