Conglomerates, Sevier Fault, Dixie National Forest
Channel: Dutton Institute
Date: 2011-10-28

This video was created for Penn State's GEOSC 010  course (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geosc10/) with the assistance of Richard Alley, Sridhar Anandakrishnan and the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/)
A conglomerate is a sedimentary rock in which many of the clasts are bigger than sand. Dave and Dr. Alley are looking at a conglomerate that includes many different clast types, including one that is itself a finer-grained conglomerate. The clasts in that conglomerate-within-a-conglomerate include several types of sedimentary rocks, including sandstones that are themselves made from older pieces.