Breccia Texture

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Textures of intrusive breccias, composed of various rock fragments in a matrix of fine-grained rock. Fragments consist of mudstone, sandstone and altered porphyry. This specimen is from Daisy Mine, Colorado, circa 1936. Plate 5-B, in Survey Professional paper 219,1949.

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