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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.
Igneous Rocks Topic Set
Supplier: Avantor
Study the Formation of Different Igneous Rocks
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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® Basalt
Supplier: Avantor
When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Andesite (Hornblende)
Supplier: Avantor
When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Sandstone (Red)
Supplier: Avantor
Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.
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Ward's® Scoria
Supplier: Avantor
Gray-to-brown basaltic, with over 50% vesicles.
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Ward's® Science Essentials® Andesite
Supplier: Avantor
Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.
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Ward's® Gneiss (Gray Banded)
Supplier: Avantor
White and black bands of quartz, feldspar, and biotite; typical foliation.
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Ward's® Sandstone (Siliceous)
Supplier: Avantor
Gray, fine to medium-grained “Berea grit”.
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Ward's® Dunite
Supplier: Avantor
When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Ward's® Build Your Own Collection Kits
Supplier: Avantor
Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens
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Ward's® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate
Supplier: Avantor
Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Quartzite
Supplier: Avantor
Fightly cemented, medium-to-coarse quartz grains.
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Ward's® Basalt (Vesicular)
Supplier: Avantor
Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.
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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)
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Fine crystalline, pure calcite.
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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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Slate (Dark Gray)
Supplier: Avantor
Chlorite-mica with perfect slaty cleavage.
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Ward's® Obsidian
Supplier: Avantor
Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.
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Ward's® Marble (Coarse White)
Supplier: Avantor
Coarse crystalline, carbonate.
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Ward's® Coal (Bituminous)
Supplier: Avantor
Black, soft; most widely mined.
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Ward's® Rhyolite (Pink)
Supplier: Avantor
Pale pink felsite, with small sanidine phenocrysts.
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Ward's® Hornfels
Supplier: Avantor
Gray, fine-grained, massive contact rock.
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Ward's® Breccia (Volcanic)
Supplier: Avantor
Light gray, fine small clasts.
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Ward's® Coal (Lignite)
Supplier: Avantor
Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.
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Supplier: VWR International
Supplier: VWR International
Supplier: VWR International
Supplier: VWR International
Supplier: VWR International