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pudding stone

noun

, British Geology.


pudding stone

noun

  1. a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pudding stone1

First recorded in 1745–55
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Example Sentences

In later flows of lava these stones were picked up and cemented into layers of pudding stone, which are styled agglomerates.

The basis of the soil is sandstone, covered with pudding-stone.

The ground presents a great many friable rocks of pudding-stone, distributed in irregular strata.

The wall which was to enclose the grounds was to be built of gray pudding-stone, tightly cemented, with a hewn granite curb-stone.

A very hard pudding-stone crops out about nine miles down the river.

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