Sparagmite (from the Latin sparagma, meaning "fragment") is an arkosic sandstone, greywacke and conglomerate set of beds so named by Jens Esmark in 1829.Ramberg, Ivar B. (editor) (2007) Landet blir til: Norges geologi (The Making of a Land: Geology of Norway) Norsk Geologisk Forening (Norwegian Geological Society), Trondheim, Norway, , page 133, in Norwegian; issued in 2008 in an English edition, translation by Richard E Binns, Deposited in what is now Scandinavia during the Neoproterozoic Era to early Cambrian time,Landet blir til: Norges geologi , page 136 the sparagmite nappes were transported up to several hundred kilometers during the Caledonian collision. Sparagmite is characterized by high feldspar percentages of microcline.Holtedahl, Olaf (1922) "A Tillite-like Conglomerate in the "Eocambrian": Sparagmite of Southern Norway" The American Journal of Science 204: pp. 165–173
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See also Sparagmite Formation