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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® Shale (Oil)
Supplier: Avantor
Brownish gray, kerogen-rich; commercial oil source.
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Ward's® Andesite (Porphyry)
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Gray andesite with large, blocky hornblende phenocrysts.
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Ward's® Igneous Rock Collection
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Samples of Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous Rocks
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Ward's® Sandstone (Banded)
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Red, medium, to coarse-grained iron oxide cement; shows hematite bands.
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Ward's® Limestone (Oolitic)
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Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.
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Metamorphic Rock Collection
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Perfect for introductory lessons on metamorphic rocks.
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Ward's® Skarn
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White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.
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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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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)
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Fine crystalline, pure calcite.
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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® Coal (Lignite)
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Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.
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Canadian Rock and Mineral Collection
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Comprehensive set of rocks and minerals highlighting the economic resources of Canada.
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Ward's® Limestone (Travertine)
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Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.
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Limestone (Coquina)
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Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.
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Ward's® Sedimentary Rock Collection
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Represents a Wide Range of Depositional Environments and Rock Textures
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Ward's® Peridotite (Coarse-Grained)
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Dark gray, composed mostly of pyroxene and olivine.
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Ward's® Introductory Rock Collection
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Ideal for Beginning Earth Science Students
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Ward's® Fulgurite
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Unusual glassy tubes of fused sand produced by lightning strikes in desert sediments. Average size: 1.5"- 2".
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Ward's® Scoria
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Gray-to-brown basaltic, with over 50% vesicles.
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Ward's® Sandstone (Siliceous)
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Gray, fine to medium-grained “Berea grit”.
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Ward's® Rhyolite (Pink)
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Pale pink felsite, with small sanidine phenocrysts.
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Ward's® Basalt (Flood)
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Classic, dark; from the Columbia Plateau.
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Ward's® Andesite (Hornblende)
Supplier: Avantor
Abundant small black phenocrysts in a gray to brown matrix.
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Ward's® Gabbro
Supplier: Avantor
Coarse-grained plagioclase and pyroxene with some olivine.
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