Conglomerate
Introduction
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Conglomerate
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 13 May 2008
The hollows are where clasts have weathered out of the matrix, leaving the imprint of their shape. The clasts are very poorly sorted, being of all sizes up to about a metre in diameter, but they are all very rounded, so they were obviously well eroded before ending up in the conglomerate.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.881947
Longitude
-2.215104