1 unkind and unpleasant: --
2 delicate and easily broken: --
As you get older your bones become increasingly brittle.
The dry samples of this facies give a soapy feel and are brittle, having conchoidal-like fractures.
Questioning, philosophic enquiry is replaced by brittle assertions of dogma.
Non-scarified seeds remained apparently unchanged physically, being hard and brittle when subsequently scarified; therefore, it is unlikely that slow imbibition occurred during incubation.
To the southwest and west it is bounded by ductile-to-brittle shear belts and brittle faults.
Where the pegmatites and alteration zones are cut, they show brittle offset.
Only limited evidence is preserved for ductile and brittle thrustsense movements along this portion of the fault zone.
Several brittle extensional micro-faults bear a ductile overprint expressed in the folding of both foliation and fault surfaces.
Individual blocks are separated by thin, slickensided surfaces with fibrous striae, which make these fault zones suitable for brittle strain analysis.
