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pudding stone

noun

British Geology.


pudding stone

noun

  1. a conglomerate rock in which there is a difference in colour or composition between the pebbles and the matrix
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Origin of pudding stone1

First recorded in 1745–55
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They determined the boulder to be a large block of conglomerate, also known as pudding stone.

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In other sections they are mixed with limestones and dolomites of the upper carboniferous age mingled with slate, sandstone and pudding stone.

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When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone.

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Entirely pudding stone, chiefly calcarious, some small parts of quartz, red granite, & flint only to be found.

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Here the stream had widened out and was very shallow, great rough masses of pudding stone being laid on the bed to let wayfarers pass over dry-shod.

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