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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 Science Essentials® Siltstone

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray to tan clastic rock made of silt sized particles.

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Ward's® Science Essentials® Anorthosite

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Description: Anorthosite is an intrusive, igneous rock consisting of predominantly plagioclase feldspar.

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Ward's Science Essentials® Gabbro

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Description: Gabbro is Mafic igneous rock formed deep underground consisting of olivine and pyroxene.

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Ward's® Tuff (Rhyolitic)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray, fine, friable, with abundant small sanidine crystal fragments.

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Ward's® Porphyry

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

Supplier: VWR
Description: Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.

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Ward's® Basalt

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Description: Grayish black trap rock.

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Ward's® Limestone (Encrinal)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.

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Pumice (Light Gray)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Glassy; most specimens float in water.

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Ward's® Obsidian

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

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Ward's® Marble (Fine White)

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Description: Fine crystalline, pure calcite.

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Ward's® Sedimentary Petro-Lab Set

Supplier: VWR
Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs

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GEO-logic Igneous Rocks Thin Section Topic Set

Catalog Number: (470025-354)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Examine the Mineral Composition of Igneous Rocks
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Ward's Science Essentials® Syenite

Supplier: VWR
Description: Syenite a light-colored rock consisting of feldspars and hornblende.

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Ward's® Dike Rock

Catalog Number: (470025-884)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Ward's® Dike Rock
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral & Rock Collection With Matching Thin Sections

Catalog Number: (470025-316)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Buy Both the Thin Section Set and the Hand Specimen Set and Save!
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