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.
Most sedimentary rocks are made up of broken pieces of other rocks. Explain how a clastic rock is formed. A clastic rock is a sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together.