27 July 2015

Conglomeratic ne plus ultra

Posted by Callan Bentley

There’s something about conglomerates that just draws me in. Here’s a lovely example — you might even say it’s an exemplar — from Sandy Hollow in Montana:

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That’s the basal conglomerate of the Cretaceous Kootenai Formation, one of the mappable units in this mappable region.

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Feast your eyes on those well-rounded pebbles!