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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.
Geo-logic Igneous Rock Set
Supplier: Avantor
Study the Formation of Different Igneous Rocks
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Wards® Metamorphic Rock Collection
Supplier: Avantor
Perfect for Introductory Lessons on Metamorphic Rocks.
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Ward's® Basalt (Olivine Porphyry)
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® 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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Ward's® Dacite
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® 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® Basalt (Amygdaloidal)
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® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate
Supplier: Avantor
Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Ward's® Cross-bedded Sandstone
Supplier: Avantor
Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand 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® Graywacke
Supplier: Avantor
Gray and poorly sorted, with a gritty texture.
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Ward's® Hornfels
Supplier: Avantor
Gray, fine-grained, massive contact rock.
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Ward's® Snowflake Obsidian (Cristobalite), Student Specimens
Supplier: Avantor
Volcanic glass with snowflakes embedded throughout.
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Ward's® Schist (Mica)
Supplier: Avantor
Foliated biotite, coarse, silvery gray with quartz-feldspar bands.
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Ward's® Siltstone
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Gray to brown mudstone with abundant silt.
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Ward's® Shale (Argillaceous)
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Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.
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Ward's® Limestone (Oolitic)
Supplier: Avantor
Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.
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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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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® Build Your Own Collection Kits
Supplier: Avantor
Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens
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Ward's® Specimen Display Sets
Supplier: Avantor
A variety of colorful collections to introduce rocks, minerals and fossils.
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Sandstone (Red)
Supplier: Avantor
Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.
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Ward's® Obsidian (Brown and Black)
Supplier: Avantor
Banded volcanic glass.
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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)
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Fine crystalline, pure calcite.
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Ward's® Obsidian
Supplier: Avantor
Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.
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