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adj. - Capable of being taken apart; Of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone).

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  • The professor had a clastic model of the human brain
  • Belize shelf - carbonate sediments, clastic sediments, and ecology.
  • The surface geology of this ecoregion consists of clastic sedimentary rocks and recent alluvium.
  • On shore, 5 m sand dunes and alluvial sands and gravels overlie relatively recent sedimentary, Tertiary clastic and PreCambrian crystalline rocks.
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