Definition of conglomerate

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Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia..

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Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (a.) Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers..
Medina Epoch :: Medina epoch () A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology..
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Glomerate :: Glomerate (a.) Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
Conglomerated :: Conglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Conglomerat.
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia..
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together..
Conglomerate :: Conglomerate (a.) Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light..
Longmynd Rocks :: Longmynd rocks () The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire..
Heterogeneous :: Heterogeneous (a.) Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up..
Fragmentak :: Fragmentak (a.) Consisting of the pulverized or fragmentary material of rock, as conglomerate, shale, etc..
Tufa :: Tufa () A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria..
Graywacke :: Graywacke (n.) A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together..
Agglomerate :: Agglomerate (n.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.
Conglomeration :: Conglomeration (n.) The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.
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