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.
CONGLOMERATE. A. Conglomerate, jasper puddingstone clock (greatest dimension-ca. 25 cm) fashioned from a boulder of the Lorrain Conglomerate that was collected from reworked glacial drift off Richards Landing, St. Joseph Island (in northern Lake Huron), Ontario, Canada. H.W. Courtney collection.