Sci-Tech Dictionary:

intraformational breccia

(¦in·trə′för′māsh·ən·əl ′brech·ə)

(petrology) A rock resulting from cracking and desiccation-shrinking of a mud after withdrawal of water followed by almost contemporaneous sedimentation.

 
 
 

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