Usually means: Deformation through fracturing and grinding.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cataclasis)

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

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