#CONGLOMERATE

[weheartstims]

Conglomerate from midnight horrors please!!!

Conglomerate (Midnight Horrors, Roblox) with pastel iridescence!

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[cedar-glade]

Mudstone conglomerate Pt1 Little Miami River

Thalictrum dioicum, Toxicodendron radicans, Sedum ternatum, Dolomedes albineus, and a very large amount of Dermatocarpon muhlenbergii.

I fully expect all of these plants/ spider/ and lichen to be common on rock features like this since it's perfect stable rocky habitat that experiences fairly wet conditions seasonally or rather gets sprayed occasionally, The level of disturbance is some what high in many cases but is variable with each one of these species. Poison ivy for example favors dryness and so does the early meadow rue growing with it but occasional removal of shade species near it is beneficial, Ide say the woodland stone crop prefers similar habit, and is most likely caused by missing these three species some how but flooding around them. The fishing spider cavity was actually near the high water mark on that rock and the rock was littered with them, this was just the only one with it's legs exposed. As for Muhlenberg's stipple back it loves spray and seasonally submerged systems of stable rocky habitat, where as sandstone stippleback/brook is a semi submerged obligate that needs near constant spraying and the white stipple back needs dry rocky habit only.

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[souptomatobasil]

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[mineralsrocksandfossiltalks]

Wordplay Wednesday: Conglomerate

What is a conglomerate? It is a type of sedimentary rock that is characterized by it's rounded gravel, pebble, or cobble-sized grains cemented together by silica, calcite, or iron oxide.

There are many ways in which a conglomerate can be formed. Turbidites are deep marine conglomerates created by turbidity currents.

Many are fluvial in nature and occur in rivers with a high flow rate (immature river systems) such as the Buckhorn Conglomerate of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah, USA.

Alluvial fans along mountain fronts tend to make the thickest conglomerates. These are often called fanglomerates.

Debris flows also deposit conglomerates such as the Clarno Formation in John Day National Monument which was deposited by a lahar or volcanic mudslide.

Glaciers create tillites, a very poorly sorted type of conglomerate (no discernable pattern to size or shape of grains).

[al3ro]

CONGLOMERATE

[lilwritingprompts]

Investigative journalist with falling reputation infiltrates big corporation that has a great public image trying to look into the under side. But there is nothing. They are determined to find dirt... even if they make the dirt.

[fropomolo]

Fire Team

Before and After.

[cedar-glade]

Massive conglomerate mudstone cliff with chasmophytes and mineral soil loving plants on it,

American alumroot and Canada columbine, and some Sideflowered skullcaps can be seen dotting the side.

Scutellaria lateriflora

Here is the twin flowering or side flowering skullcap, fairly common and notable for blooming on two sides of the stem producing two blooms in tandem. Also associated with alkaline seeps along the Little Miami.

^from seep near by

[polwarth]

mmmooooosy

[souptomatobasil]

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[drrockclub]

Are pudding stones JUST conglomerates with a drastic difference in the xenoliths and matrix or are they also metamorphosed? I own 2 pudding stones from Michigan as well as a few regular conglomerates but my geology professor didn't explain pudding stones well, here's a photo of them1

Hi abirdsfreedom,

That is a nice collection! You are correct in your definition of puddingstone, however conglomerate does not need to be metamorphosed to be described as puddingstone.

Below I provide you with definition quote for puddingstone from the Glossary of Geology (5th edition, 2011) with hope that it helps with further explanation of this rock:

‘(a) A popular name applied chiefly in Great Britain to a conglomerate consisting of well-rounded pebbles whose colours are in such marked contrast with the abundant fine-grained matrix or cement that the rock suggests an old-fashioned plum pudding. Example: the Hertfordshire Puddingstone (lower Eocene) in England, composed of black or brown flint pebbles cemented by white silica, with or without brown iron hydroxide. Syn: plum-pudding stone. (b) A siliceous rock cut into blocks for furnace linings. Also spelled: pudding stone.‘

Hope this helps! Thanks for your question.