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The quartz is a sand conglomerate. It is some yellow-brown iron staining and is secondary from the weathering of the rock.

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What pieces of broken rock shells mineral grains and other materials are also known as?

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A conglomerate is a rock that forms as result of?

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Rock that is made up of pebbles cemented together with other sediments?

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