Usually means: Rock texture formed by fracturing.
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  6. cataclastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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▸ adjective:  (petrology) describing a type of metamorphic rock that has undergone shearing and granulation by high mechanical stress

Similar:
granoblastic, clastic, metamorphous, volcaniclastic, pyrometamorphic, vitroclastic, xenomorphic, granophyric, allochemical, porphyritic, more...

Types:
fault, fracture, vein, dike, sill, lode, more...

Phrases:
cataclastic metamorphism, cataclastic rock, more...

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Similar:
granoblastic, clastic, metamorphous, volcaniclastic, pyrometamorphic, vitroclastic, xenomorphic, granophyric, allochemical, porphyritic, more...

Types:
fault, fracture, vein, dike, sill, lode, more...

Phrases:
cataclastic metamorphism, cataclastic rock, more...



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