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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.

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.


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Pocket Hardness Points Set

Catalog Number: (470014-828)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Students determine a mineral's hardness between five and 10 on Mohs' scale.
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Ward's® Mantle Xenolith

Catalog Number: (470025-896)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Glossy green dunite (olivine) inclusion in non-genetically related basalt. Average size: 3" x 4".
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Ward's Science Essentials® Gray Slate

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray metamorphosed shale showing "slaty cleavage".

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Ward's® Rhyolite (Pink)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Pale pink felsite, with small sanidine phenocrysts.

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Ward's® Basalt

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Grayish black trap rock.

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Ward's® Andesite (Porphyry)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray andesite with large, blocky hornblende phenocrysts.

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Ward's® Build Your Own Collection Kits

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

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Ward's® Sandstone (Banded)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Red, medium, to coarse-grained iron oxide cement; shows hematite bands.

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Ward's® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate

Catalog Number: (470025-890)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Ward's® GEO-Logic Types of Fossilization Topic Set

Catalog Number: (470026-810)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Define and compare ways organisms have been preserved.
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Ward's® Igneous Petro-Lab Set

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs

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Ward's® Science Essentials® Andesite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.

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Quartzite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Fightly cemented, medium-to-coarse quartz grains.

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Ward's® Marble (Coarse White)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Coarse crystalline, carbonate.

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Ward's® White Marble

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray to white metamorphosed carbonate rock.

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Ward's® Sandstone (Siliceous)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray, fine to medium-grained “Berea grit”.

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