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pudding stone
pudding stone
noun
- a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pudding stone1
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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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