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Pebble Conglomerate

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By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide

This conglomerate from "Earthquake Beach" near Fort Ross has fairly well sorted clasts of pebble size. It also displays weak bedding planes running diagonally.
A fine-grained examplePhoto (c) 2007 Andrew Alden, licensed to About.com
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