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  1. Along the Rockfish River, south of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge province, there is a gorgeous quarry exposure of the Rockfish Conglomerate, a Neoproterozoic matrix-supported conglomerate with a mix of rounded and angular clasts, perhaps indicative of ancient (Snowball Earth) glacial outwash.

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  3. Tertiary Ogallala Formation capping a hill in southern Rooks County, Kansas. Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk beds are exposed in the lower slopes south of CC Road (left). This gigapan is shot from a lower vantage point in the foreground of www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2840

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  4. An isolated hill capped by Ogallala Formation conglomerates rises above a quarry in the Smoky Hill Chalk.

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  5. Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona, in Catalonia. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, Santa Maria de Montserrat, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some [1] with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth. "Montserrat" literally means "jagged (serra...

  6. This roacdut exposes a Quaternary large boulder conglomerate beside Lone Pine Creek in the Alabama Hills. Most of the clasts are boulders of granitoids of the Mount Whitney Intrusive Suite.

  7. The ancient erosional surface between the Archean rocks of the Wyoming Terrane basement complex and the overlying Flathead Sandstone (Cambrian in age), with a rubbly conglomerate at its base.

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  8. Fanglomerate of the western Culpeper Basin.

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  9. Archean conglomerate with detrital pyrite, indicative of a low-oxygen atmosphere. Sample is 16.5 cm across at its widest point, and was provided by Dr. Jay Kaufman of the University of Maryland.

  10. This prehistoric ocean floor is the World’s largest exposure of quartz conglomerate (also called ocean spar or puddingstone) and attracts thousands of visitors yearly.

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