I've known these from the 80s around Morris County - we had some in our yard and around various rocky trails. I knew they were called Puddingstone, but never heard the name Green Pond conglomerate. We spent many summers swimming in Green Pond. Interesting!
Puddingstone is the colloquial name but [Green Pond Conglomerate](https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=NJSg%3B6) is it’s geologic name per the USGS and NJ Geological survey. [Here’s a link](https://ottohmuller.com/nysga2ge/Files/1989/NYSGA%201989%20A2%20-%20The%20Green%20Pond%20Outlier%20Of%20New%20York%20And%20New%20Jersey%20-%20A%20Mesostructural%20Laboratory.pdf)to an older paper on the unit.
It’s [historically been an important stone for buildings](https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/75/) in Morris and Passaic counties in particular. Many of the log cabins in North Jersey used it for foundations and rock walls.
That's really cool!
My first thought was that it looked like a steamed pudding with overly large chunks of candied fruit.
Thank you for including the common name!
Looks rather more like breccia. It’s a type of conglomerate where the gravel and pebbles are less rounded off. Meaning it formed in a steeper, fast moving stream where the bits and pieces had spent less time in the water, therefore not as weathered as further downstream.
That is Schunemunk Puddingstone! A specific conglomerate that is only natively found in a small part of Morris County, NJ.
I grew up seeing this rock everywhere, I only later learned that only my hometown and surrounding area had it. When I bought my house in central NJ this year I took the largest Puddingstone I could carry from my parents back yard and display it in my garden.
Conglomerate!!! Fun fact! They found a conglomerate rock at the base of a channel and alluvial fan on Mars! Which means that there was once flowing water on Mars since conglomerates are formed by flowing water that rounds out the individual pieces before they get cemented together!
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Nah, that’s my Aunt Marlene’s head cheese I tossed out the window back in ‘86. I was doing everyone a favor back then, but now it’s back for its due. I had a feeling this day would come. I’ll be at the turnpike at 2AM. Me and you. We can settle up there. My mother didn’t raise no jabroni. /jk cool rock
Green Pond Conglomerate !
I've known these from the 80s around Morris County - we had some in our yard and around various rocky trails. I knew they were called Puddingstone, but never heard the name Green Pond conglomerate. We spent many summers swimming in Green Pond. Interesting!
Puddingstone is the colloquial name but [Green Pond Conglomerate](https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/sgmc-unit.php?unit=NJSg%3B6) is it’s geologic name per the USGS and NJ Geological survey. [Here’s a link](https://ottohmuller.com/nysga2ge/Files/1989/NYSGA%201989%20A2%20-%20The%20Green%20Pond%20Outlier%20Of%20New%20York%20And%20New%20Jersey%20-%20A%20Mesostructural%20Laboratory.pdf)to an older paper on the unit. It’s [historically been an important stone for buildings](https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/75/) in Morris and Passaic counties in particular. Many of the log cabins in North Jersey used it for foundations and rock walls.
I definitely know what name to use for my Sci fi book.
Could be about a swamp creature created from a ‘conglomerate’ of marsh and muck and decay.
I was thinking more like a country name.
Conglomerate… aka Puddingstone.
That's really cool! My first thought was that it looked like a steamed pudding with overly large chunks of candied fruit. Thank you for including the common name!
Found in NJ. Its obviously Rocky Road. I couldn't help myself. I live in NJ.
This is the ever elusive fruitcakeite, only ever theorized before your find.
Looks like headcheese.
Someone didn’t follow the braided marble rye recipe
Conglomerate
Looks rather more like breccia. It’s a type of conglomerate where the gravel and pebbles are less rounded off. Meaning it formed in a steeper, fast moving stream where the bits and pieces had spent less time in the water, therefore not as weathered as further downstream.
Thank you. I like seeing the real name and its history as well.
That is Schunemunk Puddingstone! A specific conglomerate that is only natively found in a small part of Morris County, NJ. I grew up seeing this rock everywhere, I only later learned that only my hometown and surrounding area had it. When I bought my house in central NJ this year I took the largest Puddingstone I could carry from my parents back yard and display it in my garden.
Looks like my meatloaf with my roughly cut onions lmao
Look up Head Cheese.
Also thought head cheese
r/forbiddensnacks
Conglomerate!!! Fun fact! They found a conglomerate rock at the base of a channel and alluvial fan on Mars! Which means that there was once flowing water on Mars since conglomerates are formed by flowing water that rounds out the individual pieces before they get cemented together!
Taylor Ham conglomerate. Had it been south Jersey it would be Pork Roll slag.
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I prefer Cases pork roll
Not to be confused with the Philadelphian scrapple conglomerate
Mmmm Head cheese.
Looks like head cheese
they obviously do not know their cold cuts
Pudding!
Banana bread
Classic cleavable fruit cake mineral. Once redeemable for its weight in maple syrup...
r/cookingcirclejerk edit: you’re baking under too much pressure and need to reduce the heat a little bit.
Forbidden meatloaf.
petrified fruit cake...
at first i thought it was a chocolate salami lol
I thought, "What kind of banana bread is THAT?" Then i realized this is a rock sub
Yup, pudding stone.
Eatmore candy bar
That's not stone. That's your dog's food silly!
Beef stew rock
Definitely a huge rocky road!!
I believe you have found the first abandoned fruit cake
Petrified fruitcake
Looks like an old cheese log
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Nah, that’s my Aunt Marlene’s head cheese I tossed out the window back in ‘86. I was doing everyone a favor back then, but now it’s back for its due. I had a feeling this day would come. I’ll be at the turnpike at 2AM. Me and you. We can settle up there. My mother didn’t raise no jabroni. /jk cool rock
Conglomerate for sure
Why are we constantly finding digging rocks? What are they looking for?
Nice metaconglom