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 is also a type of clastic sedimentary rock that is formed by rounded fragments having joined together with the help of smaller such particles or with mineral cement that binds the minerals and fragments together. Breccias have angular fragments. In other words, Breccia has angular clasts. â¢ Fragments are much more rounded in conglomerates. In other words, Conglomerate has rounded clasts.