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Example sentences for "conglomerate"

Lexicographically close words:
congested; congestion; congestions; congestive; conglobate; conglomerated; conglomerates; conglomeratic; conglomeration; congratulate
  1. The shores in some places are fringed with coral conglomerate composed of shells and sand, fragments of coral, and rolled pieces of rock from above.

  2. The low woody portion of this island is strewed with flat blocks of the same kind of recent coral conglomerate that occurs in situ on the beach, also with quantities of pumice twelve feet above high-water mark of spring tides.

  3. I there found nothing of much interest, except some very thick beds of conglomerate superimposed upon a compact basaltic-looking rock.

  4. In short, the conglomerate is absolutely indistinguishable from any other glacial moraine, whether of the Quaternary period or of the present day.

  5. The sandstone to the east of Kala-panee is capped by some beds, forty feet thick, of conglomerate worn into cliffs; these are the remains of a very extensive horizontally stratified formation, now all but entirely denuded.

  6. They are continuous with a line of quartzy cliffs, covered with scarlet rhododendrons, and in the holes of which a conglomerate of pebbles is found, 150 feet above the river.

  7. Defn: A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

  8. Fine section of conglomerate you have in the road cutting just above the station.

  9. I meant to say that I didn't know we had any quartz conglomerate hereabouts.

  10. The form of the isothermal solubility curves is also of great value for determining whether an inactive substance is a racemic compound or a conglomerate of equal proportions of the optical antipodes.

  11. In this case the freezing point of each of the components is lowered by the addition of the other, until at last a point is reached at which the liquid solution solidifies to a mixture or conglomerate of two mixed crystals.

  12. Although at the eutectic point the solution solidifies entirely without change of temperature, the solid which is deposited is not a homogeneous solid phase, but a mixture, or conglomerate of the two components.

  13. Continued withdrawal of heat at this point will therefore lead to the complete solidification of the solution to a mixture or conglomerate of iodine and iodine monochloride, while the temperature remains constant during the process.

  14. Examination shows the layers of volcanic conglomerate and lava of which, like layers of brick and stone, the great structure was built.

  15. The coarse gravels which naturally fall first become conglomerate when cemented by the action of chemicals in water.

  16. That in turn rests upon a hundred feet of brown conglomerate streaked with gray, the grave of reptiles whose bones have survived a million years or more.

  17. They bustled about their ponies, roping upon them the weighty sacks of mail and conglomerate loot, looking to their curved bits and cinch-straps.

  18. Rough ledges of sandstone and conglomerate rock cropped out of the earth in many places here, but the strip of land between the stream and the hillside was cleared of timber and lay quite level.

  19. Evidence is not wanting to show that the mediæval magical cultus owes its conglomerate character to something more than the accidental mingling of races, or the spontaneous action of polytheism which I have noticed.

  20. I remained here a week that I might explore the country, which is of sandstone formation, granite below, iron-conglomerate in large boulders on the slopes of the hills.

  21. Ironstone and iron-conglomerate are plentiful over this part of the country; blue metamorphic rocks crop up between slate shale and quartz, similar to that of the Tati gold-fields, in all directions.

  22. Near Knaas river the formation in the valley is a conglomerate of limestone, greenstone, and garnets.

  23. The "banket" formation, which characterizes the goldfields of South Africa, consists of a quartzite conglomerate throughout which gold is very finely disseminated.

  24. The gold in this conglomerate reef is partly of detrital origin and partly of the genetic character of ordinary vein-gold.

  25. The gold occurs in conglomerate beds, locally known as "banket.

  26. The foot of these falls is heavily incumbered, both with masses of the disrupted sand-rock[220] and granitic and conglomerate boulders.

  27. Mr. Maclauchlan's geological map of the district exhibits the course of the conglomerate bed, and the consequent disappearance of the old red sandstone formation under the Dean Forest basin.

  28. They chatted and worked, then they took the children and went up on the mound, where they had a view of the busy hive below, and the conglomerate of nations, it seemed to their limited sense.

  29. There is another conglomerate and useful book, edited by W.

  30. There were also published, under the auspices of the government, the conglomerate and very unequal work of Henry R.

  31. Whether under the name of Chichimecs we are to understand a distinct people, or a varied and conglomerate mass of people, which, in a generic way, we might call barbarians, is a question open to discussion.

  32. The belief in human traces in the calcareous conglomerate of Florida seems to have been based (Haven, p.

  33. Blocks of the conglomerate used in the construction of the so-called Pagan Wall meet us at every turn, and as we gaze down the steep sides of the promontory we can trace its massive outline.

  34. The night came on cold; the wind howled; the rain turned into snow and on Christmas morning the ground was covered with a rough, hard conglomerate of snow and ice.

  35. It had for its base a ledge of Roxbury conglomerate called "pudding-stone," and it was banked up with two greensward terraces.

  36. The strata under the conglomerate are all of red clay shale of different degrees of hardness, the most indurated being at the bottom.

  37. The hollow affords a section of this part of the country; and we find that the uppermost stratum is the ferruginous conglomerate already mentioned.

  38. The large room was too warm and was filled with the conglomerate aromas of food.

  39. There was a very different ring in the conversation of Betty and Belle, who stood a few yards away surrounded by people of all the strange conglomerate nationalities which go to make up the population of the United States.

  40. The Bunter Conglomerate contains no fossils of contemporaneous age, but many species of shells have been obtained from the hard, rounded lumps of rock of which it is composed.

  41. West of Stourbridge the Conglomerate forms the “Ridge,” and caps Kinver Edge, dipping east or south-east at from five to eight degrees.

  42. Conglomerate (L)--conglomerate rock is composed of rounded pebbles and sand cemented together into solid rock.

  43. A rock house in the conglomerate sandstone on the land of Dr.

  44. Those whose location was clearly given are merely "rock houses" or recesses in the Carboniferous conglomerate bluffs bordering the east fork of White River.

  45. The bluff in which it is situated is a conglomerate limestone, rising from the waters of Skagg's Creek.

  46. They also claim that blocks of conglomerate and travertine 5 to 10 feet in each dimension have formed from "drip" within their recollection; which, if true, would prove these persons to be almost contemporaneous with the cave men.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conglomerate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; accumulation; adhere; agglomeration; aggregate; aggregation; alloy; amalgamate; amass; amassed; ambiguous; ambivalent; amphibious; assemble; assembled; assorted; assortment; basalt; bedrock; blend; blended; block; body; breccia; bulk; bunch; business; cake; cartel; chain; chunk; clasp; cleave; clinch; cling; clot; clump; cluster; coagulate; coalesce; cohere; collect; collected; combination; combine; combined; commingle; company; compile; complex; compose; composite; compound; concern; concoct; concrete; congeal; congeries; conglomerate; conglomeration; consortium; corporation; corral; crag; cumulation; dappled; eclectic; embrace; emulsify; enterprise; equivocal; firm; fuse; gather; gathered; gathering; gneiss; granite; grasp; group; hash; heterogeneous; hold; house; hug; hunk; indiscriminate; industry; integrate; interlace; interlard; intermingle; intermix; intertwine; interweave; intricate; ironic; join; joined; joint; jumble; jumbled; knead; knot; knotted; lava; leagued; lot; lump; mass; match; medley; meeting; merge; mingle; mingled; miscellaneous; miscellany; mix; mixed; mixture; mobilize; monolith; motley; multifarious; multinational; muster; node; organization; packaged; pair; partner; partnership; patchy; persist; pluralistic; pool; promiscuous; raise; rally; rubble; sandstone; schist; scoria; scramble; scrambled; scree; shuffle; snowball; solid; solidify; stacked; stay; stick; stockpile; stone; sundries; syndicate; trust; utility; varied; variety; wad; work