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.
Sedimentary breccia is a type of clastic sedimentary rock which is made of angular to subangular, randomly oriented clasts of other sedimentary rocks.A conglomerate, by contrast, is a sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments or clasts of pre-existing rocks.Both breccia and conglomerate are composed of fragments averaging greater than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in size. conglomerate, by contrast, is a sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments or clasts of pre-existing rocks. Both breccia and conglomerate are composed of fragments averaging greater than 2 millimetres (0.079 in) in size.