Please note that the schools of literary criticism and their explanations included here are by no means the only ways of distinguishing these separate areas of theory. Indeed, many critics use tools from two or more schools in their work.
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that contains large (greater than two millimeters in diameter) rounded clasts.
clastic rock - (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks. geology-a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks.clast - (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock.rock, stone-a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; he threw a rock at me.lastic rock - (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks. geology-a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks. clast - (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock. rock, stone-a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; he threw a rock at me.