This eight-foot-long slab is a conglomerate – a rock made from water-worked fragments of older rocks. It’s what you’d get if you buried a riverbed composed of many different types of rock ...

The conglomerate is found elsewhere throughout ... veins are what have prevented many people from falling from these rocks as they played on them. Jeri Jones writes regularly about regional ...

Examples of sedimentary rocks include sandstone, shale, limestone, dolomite and conglomerate. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The second class are igneous rocks ...

In these landslides, rocks that formed on land and in shallow waters fall into the deep ocean, mixing up their original positions. The Great Marlborough Conglomerate formation could be the result ...

The steep walls are full of opal- and chalcedony-cemeted sandstone and conglomerates. But if you go, remember to leave the rocks there. Rock and mineral collecting in Castlewood Canyon State Park ...

Looking to get your snow on? Vail, the largest resort in the U.S., and nearby Beaver Creek -- both of which are part of the Vail Resorts conglomerate -- are known for fluffy powder everywhere you ...