Cataclastic

What do we mean by cataclastic?

Of or relating to rocks consisting of cemented fragments that originate from the mechanical breakdown of rocks associated with plate tectonic processes. adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, a cataclasm.

In petrography, noting a structure produced in rocks by crushing or shearing, whereby the minerals are broken into fragments.

A fragmental texture in a rock or mineral produced by crushing instead of sedimentation. noun

Describing a type of metamorphic rock that has undergone shearing and granulation by high mechanical stress adjective

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Words that are spelled similarly to cataclastic:
cataclastic, cataplastic, cataclysmic, anaclastic, catalatic, catacaustic, cataclasis, catallactic, catacoustic, cytoclastic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cataclastic:
rocks, flow, deformation, texture, structure, structures, textures, zones, effects, metamorphism, zone, rock, bands, foliation, gneiss, fabric, faults, processes, features, phenomena, gneisses, fabrics, origin, action, granite, process, material, quartz, nature, regime, breccias, cracks, matrix, movements, breccia, gouge, fragments, varieties, granites, grains, accidents, reduction, kind, faulting, anorthosite, event, deformations, coal.

Words that sound like cataclastic:
catalatic, cataclysmic, catalytic, iconoclastic, catalectic, scholastic, sarcastic, sarcotic, sockless, salata.