Ortho-Conglomerate (Sedimentary Clastic Rock)

- Hand-Sample of Clast-Support Ortho-Conglomerate, it has up to 15% of the matrix.

- conglomerate is divided into two main types:
* Clast-Support Ortho-Conglomerate that has up to 15% of the matrix.
* Matrix-Support Para-Conglomerate that has less than 15% of the matrix.

- The blue-marked grains in the picture refer to an important morphological feature of conglomerate, is that conglomerate has rounded grains in microscopic slides and hand-samples.

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