An alternative or variant spelling of breccia, a coarse-grained rock formed from angular rock fragments cemented together.
Variant spelling of breccia, from Italian breccia meaning broken stone. This spelling appears in some historical geological texts.
Geologists sometimes spell the same thing different ways depending on which language tradition they're following—brecia versus breccia shows how Italian geological terms entered English and evolved slightly in spelling.
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