"intraclast" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "intra- + -clast",
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          "ref": "1971, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, page 716",
          "text": "In thin section the rock is composed of intraclasts (180/i modal diameter) and foraminifera (180/i modal diameter), in a matrix of microspar (4/i to 8/i diameter; mode 7fi.).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Philip Martin Bethke, Ancient Lake Creede: Its Volcano-tectonic Setting, History of Sedimentation, and Relation to Mineralization in the Creede Mining District",
          "text": "The bodies of these beds typically show coarse-tail reverse grading of pumice and sedimentary intraclasts or coarse-tail normal grading of all clasts, although grading is absent in some of the intraclast-rich breccia beds.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bernhard Hubmann, Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003",
          "text": "They are regarded as distal turbidites and are interbedded with bioclastic limestones and massive breccioid limestones containing blocks of coral colonies and intraclasts that are regarded as proximal turbidites.",
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        "A sediment formed by the redeposition of material erodes from an original deposit."
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          "erode",
          "erode"
        ],
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          "deposit",
          "deposit"
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        "(geology) A sediment formed by the redeposition of material erodes from an original deposit."
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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  ],
  "word": "intraclast"
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          "ref": "1971, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, page 716",
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          "ref": "2000, Philip Martin Bethke, Ancient Lake Creede: Its Volcano-tectonic Setting, History of Sedimentation, and Relation to Mineralization in the Creede Mining District",
          "text": "The bodies of these beds typically show coarse-tail reverse grading of pumice and sedimentary intraclasts or coarse-tail normal grading of all clasts, although grading is absent in some of the intraclast-rich breccia beds.",
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