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All clastic rocks are made up by rock fragments of different size. Siliciclastic rocks (rocks composed chiefly of broken up silicate material) are classified depending on what the predominant grain size is, how wide the spread in grain size is, what the form of the grains are and what the contributing minerals are.

Very badly sorted clastic rocks with rounded fragments chiefly of gravel size is called conglomerate.

Well sorted silicate material, mainly of sizes between 0.1 to 0.2 mm diameter, is called sandstone (made up of fine sand).

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Conglomerate is a clastic rock made up of different sized rock fragments. These fragments are cemented together by a matrix of smaller particles, creating a coarse-grained texture.

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