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.
Fragments within a conglomerate are pea-sized and larger. An older name for conglomerate is pudding stone. 2. breccia Breccia consists of angular rock fragments cemented together. The angular shape implies that the fragments have not moved far from their source.