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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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Catalog Number: (470025-228)
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Description: Ideal for Beginning Earth Science Students


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Description: Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.

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Description: Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.

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Description: Represents a Wide Range of Depositional Environments and Rock Textures

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Description: Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.

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Description: Dark gray, composed mostly of pyroxene and olivine.

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

Catalog Number: (470226-466)
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Description: Introduce your students to rocks formed metamorphism of other rocks.


Catalog Number: (470025-334)
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Description: Teacher’s Master Set for Use with Student GEO-logic® Physical Geology Sets


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Description: Chert is a microcrystalline, hard, silica mineral.

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Description: Shale is a rich, gray fissile clay rock.

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Description: Phyllite is a light-gray foliated rock formed from metamorphosed slate.

Catalog Number: (470025-348)
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Description: Study the Formation of Different Igneous Rocks


Catalog Number: (470025-900)
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Description: Ward's® Fulgurite


Catalog Number: (470025-132)
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Description: Skarn (Cordierite Anthophyllite)


Catalog Number: (470025-350)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Indicative of Various Sedimentary Formation Processes


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