pudding stone

noun British Geology.

conglomerate(def 3).

Also pud·ding·stone

[poo d-ing-stohn] /ˈpʊd ɪŋˌstoʊn/.

Origin of pudding stone

First recorded in 1745–55

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Examples from the Web for pudding stone

Historical Examples of pudding stone

You can lie out on the naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone.
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
The basis of the soil is sandstone, covered with pudding-stone.
The Spell of Switzerland
Nathan Haskell Dole
This appears evidently from the examination of our pudding-stone.
Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)
James Hutton
When the pebbles are rounded the conglomerate is a pudding-stone.
Roman Mosaics
Hugh Macmillan
The rocks are pudding-stone and sandstone, and belong to the Porcupine Mountain development.
Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

British Dictionary definitions for 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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