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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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Ward's® Conglomerate (Quartz)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.

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Ward's® Obsidian

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.

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Granite (Porphyritic)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Coarse-grained, with microcline, biotite and horblende phenocrysts.

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Ward's® Limestone (Shell)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Buff, coarse, crystalline “Austin Marble” with shell casts and molds.

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Ward's® Graywacke

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Fine angular quartz and feldspar in a chlorite clay-rich matrix.

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Ward's® Phyllite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Light grayish green, fine-grained, well-foliated, schistose.

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Ward's® Basalt

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Grayish black trap rock.

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Ward's® Basalt (Vesicular)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.

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Ward's® Porphyry

Catalog Number: (470015-460)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Pyroxenite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Pyroxenite is ultramafic igneous rock made up of primarily pyroxene minerals.

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Ward's® Shale (Oil)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Brownish gray, kerogen-rich; commercial oil source.

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Ward's® Rhyolite (Pink)

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

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Ward's Science Essentials® Granite

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Porphyritic igneous rock containing biotite, feldspar, and hornblende.

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Ward's® Quartzite (Green)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Chlorite-bearing.

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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Fine crystalline, pure calcite.

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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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