Meanings
- not comparablegeographyOf or pertaining to a conglomerate.
Above these shales we find a light, soft sandstone, sometimes of conglomeratic or breccioid structure, in moderately thick layers.
1916, Johan August Udden, The Thrall Oil Field, volume 2, page 102 more examples
The object of this communication was to show that the more or less conglomeratic strata immediately underlying the ordinary Lias limestone on the coast of Glamorganshire, between the River Ogmore and Dunraven Point, do not belong to the Rhætic series, as has been supposed, but to the Lias.
1867, The Geological Magazine Or Monthly Journal of Geology, page 216The basement-bed is generally the more conglomeratic, containing often large boulders of Carboniferous Limestone in a creamy limestone-matrix; but beds with no pebbles often lie in places directly on the older rock.
1893, The Jurassic Rocks of Britain
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