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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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Slate (Dark Gray)
Supplier: Avantor
Chlorite-mica with perfect slaty cleavage.
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Ward's® Rhyolite (Pink)
Supplier: Avantor
Pale pink felsite, with small sanidine phenocrysts.
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Ward's® Skarn
Supplier: Avantor
White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.
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Ward's® Arkose
Supplier: Avantor
Red-brown to gray, coarse-grained, containing feldspar and mica.
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Schist (Mica Garnet)
Supplier: Avantor
Silvery, paragranite and muscovite-rich with medium garnet crystals.
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North American Rock Collection
Supplier: Geoscience Industries
This collection with rock types and associations with the North American continent contains 100 specimens with each group represented: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. Specimens are approximately 1"" x 1"", number-coded in compartmented container.
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Ward's® Specimen Display Sets
Supplier: TREASURE CREEK MINERALS, LLC.
A variety of colorful collections to introduce rocks, minerals and fossils.
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Ward's® Sandstone (White)
Supplier: Avantor
Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.
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Ward's® Granite (Gray)
Supplier: Avantor
Fine to medium-grained with biotite.
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Ward's® Gabbro (Hornblende)
Supplier: Avantor
Dark gray, with hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral.
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Ward's® Tuff (Rhyolitic)
Supplier: Avantor
Gray, fine, friable, with abundant small sanidine crystal fragments.
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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® Basalt (Flood)
Supplier: Avantor
Classic, dark; from the Columbia Plateau.
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Ward's® Diorite
Supplier: Avantor
Coarse, “salt and pepper”: dark pyroxene and light andesine.
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Ward's® Gabbro
Supplier: Avantor
Coarse-grained plagioclase and pyroxene with some olivine.
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Ward's® Limestone (Shell)
Supplier: Avantor
Buff, coarse, crystalline “Austin Marble” with shell casts and molds.
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Ward's® Limestone (Travertine)
Supplier: Avantor
Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.
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Limestone (Coquina)
Supplier: Avantor
Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.
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Ward's® Sedimentary Rock Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Represents a Wide Range of Depositional Environments and Rock Textures
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Ward's® Peridotite (Coarse-Grained)
Supplier: Avantor
Dark gray, composed mostly of pyroxene and olivine.
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Ward's® Pegmatite
Supplier: Avantor
Classic, very coarse-grained igneous texture.
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Ward's® Limestone (Encrinal)
Supplier: Avantor
Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Gray Gneiss
Supplier: Avantor
High grade metamorphosed rock showing bands of quartz, feldspar, and biotite.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Quartzite
Supplier: Avantor
Quartzite is hard, non-foliated rock formed from metamorphosed quartz sandstones.