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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® Marble (Coarse White)
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Coarse crystalline, carbonate.
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Ward's® Breccia (Volcanic)
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Light gray, fine small clasts.
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Ward's® Coal (Bituminous)
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Black, soft; most widely mined.
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Ward's® Sandstone (White)
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Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.
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Ward's® Granite (Gray)
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Fine to medium-grained with biotite.
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Ward's® Gabbro (Hornblende)
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Dark gray, with hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral.
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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® 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® Rock Thin Section
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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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Sedimentary Rock Set of 18
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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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Pocket Hardness Points Set
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Students determine a mineral's hardness between five and 10 on Mohs' scale.
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Sargent Welch Igneous Rock Collection
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This kit introduces students to igneous rocks.
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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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Shale (Carbonaceous)
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Black, fissile; commonly with carbonized fossil plant impressions.
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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® Shale (Oil)
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Brownish gray, kerogen-rich; commercial oil source.
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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)
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Abundant small black phenocrysts in a gray to brown matrix.
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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® Gabbro
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Coarse-grained plagioclase and pyroxene with some olivine.
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