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What does parent rock mean?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 5/27/2022

It means the rock that a small piece broke off from. Outside our local library is a boulder quite different from our local sandstone. It is labelled as 'an erratic block of andesitic agglomerate' which broke off 'from the parent rock in Cumbria some millions of years ago'. It was carried about 120 miles by a glacier.

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