What are conglomerate rocks?

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It's worth a shot

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1. Either Sedimentary Rocks

or popular music foisted upon the public by corporate entities more interested in profits than artistic integrity.

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2. Sedimentary!

Are you good w/ geology?

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3. I've Always Been Interested in Geology

I used to collect rocks as a kid. I had tons of rocks in our storage buildings, and I recall that one of my favorite Christmas presents was a rock tumbler.

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4. do you happen to know why conglomerate deposits occur? nt

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7. They can occur for a variety of reasons,

such as it is a high energy environment--such as a fast flowing stream bed, or a zone of some beach environments and all smaller particles are washed away. Or they can occur close to a source rock where the original source rock has not been finely broken down. AN example of this would be in a desert like Death Valley where you can see many fans of coarse material coming off the mountain sides--but the climate is too dry to really decompose the rock fragments.

Did that help?

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8. Yes it did

Thank you very much!

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10. My pleasure,

glad to help, and oh yes, GEOLOGY RULES!:headbang:

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5. They are clastic sedimentary rocks

composed of pebbles or larger (cobbles, etc.) mineral composition is largely not important, what matters is grain size. (Clastic means formed of fragments, as opposed to a chemical precipitate--such as limestone or chert.

Either that or shit like Whitesnake--why do you need to know?

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6. I need to know

what conditions are implied by the deposition of conglomerates

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9. Do you have a paper due? ;)

I mentioned that it was a grain size classification, however, coquinas are conglomerates from a grain size point of view, but are contstructed almost entirely from sea shells. This would tell you a lot about it's environment of deposition (ie it's in the sea!) as opposed to something with a bunch of feldspar, or mafic minerals that don't last too well in humid surface environments. If those are present it is more likely from an arid environment.

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11. I have a prelab

I have this math requirement covered by geology. I'm a moron when it comes to math and geology isn't really sticking so I'm really struggling. Thank god for the Pass/No Pass grading option

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12. Good luck,

I'm gonna crash soon, but if you need more help you can always send a DU email. (for awhile I thought I was gonna be a teacher, so it's kind of nice to bust that sort of thing out every once in awhile.

If you have any REALLY nasty questions I know another DUer who is currently working on his Master's so I could pass that along to him. However if this for a general requirement class that's probably not needed.

Once again, good luck, and just remember not to wait to the last minute.....well not for the big stuff anyway;)