clastic rock

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   (geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks

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Questions about clastic rock

What does clastic rock mean?

clastic rock means "(geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks".

Is clastic rock a common word?

clastic rock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.