Conglomerate

Conglomerate

Description

A natural or man-made heterogeneous stone mass. A conglomerate of stone consists of pebbles or gravel embedded in a matrix of sand and cement. Examples are breccia and puddingstone.

Synonyms and Related Terms

conglomérat (Fr.); conglomerado (Esp., Port.); Konglomerat (Deut.); conglomeraat (Ned.)

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Authority

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia, Douglas M. Considine (ed.), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1976

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998