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Rock specimens are useful for studying textures, grain sizes, and other features altered by pressure, temperature, and other natural forces. Different select categories of rock specimens are available for purchase as well, including metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks. Sets of rock specimens are housed in compartmentalized collection boxes, with descriptions of each specimen printed for easy confirmation of identification. These rock specimens are carefully selected to be the highest quality to provide students with a suitable introduction to earth materials and their characteristics.
Ward's® Rock Thin Section
Supplier: Avantor
Use these thin-section slides with a polarizing microscope to view rock specimens in detail. Includes: biotite granite, olivine basalt, red sandstone, encrinal limestone, mica schist, augen gneiss, storage box and identification guide.
Note: collections are subject to change depending upon availability of individual items. Set of six.
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral & Rock Collection With Matching Thin Sections
Supplier: Avantor
Buy Both the Thin Section Set and the Hand Specimen Set and Save!
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Pumice (Light Gray)
Supplier: Avantor
Glassy; most specimens float in water.
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Ward's® Porphyry
Supplier: Avantor
Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.
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Ward's® Obsidian
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Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.
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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)
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Fine crystalline, pure calcite.
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Ward's® Coal (Lignite)
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Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.
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Ward's® Tuff (Rhyolitic)
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Gray, fine, friable, with abundant small sanidine crystal fragments.
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Ward's® Limestone (Encrinal)
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Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.
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Ward's® Conglomerate (Quartz)
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Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.
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Ward's® Gneiss (Pink Banded)
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Pink and gray bands, with biotite; shows good foliation.
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Ward's® Igneous Rock Collection
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Samples of Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous Rocks
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Metamorphic Rock Collection
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Perfect for introductory lessons on metamorphic rocks.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Sedimentary Rocks Collection
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Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock & Thin Section Bundle
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Save Over $100 on This Complete Petrology Teaching Package!
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Sedimentary Rock Set of 18
Supplier: Avantor
Includes: six each of conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Set of 18.
Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.
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Canadian Rock and Mineral Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Comprehensive set of rocks and minerals highlighting the economic resources of Canada.
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Quartzite
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Fightly cemented, medium-to-coarse quartz grains.
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Ward's® Basalt (Vesicular)
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Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.
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Ward's® Limestone (Travertine)
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Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.
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Ward's® Diorite
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Coarse, 'salt and pepper': dark pyroxene and light andesine. Provides perfect representation of an intermediate igneous rock.
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Ward's® Graywacke
Supplier: Avantor
Gray and poorly sorted, with a gritty texture.
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Limestone (Coquina)
Supplier: Avantor
Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.
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Ward's® Coal (Bituminous)
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Black, soft; most widely mined.
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