adjective
- composed of fragments of pre-existing rocks or minerals
Usage: geology
Examples
- Sandstone is a common clastic sedimentary rock.
- The clastic particles were transported by wind and water.
- Geologists studied the clastic deposits in the riverbed.
- Conglomerate is a coarse-grained clastic rock.
- The clastic texture indicates mechanical weathering processes.
- Shale forms from fine clastic sediments like clay and silt.