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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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Description: Pink/grey marble colored metamorphosed carbonate rock.

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Description: Rhyolite is a pale, pink felsic rock with lower density than most igneous rocks.

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Description: Diorite is a mix of dark pyroxene and light andesine provides perfect representation of an intermediate igneous rock.

Catalog Number: (470025-288)
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Description: Specimens To Supplement the Most Widely-Used College Lab Manual for Physical Geology


Catalog Number: (470025-154)
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Description: Previously known as the syracuse university mineral and rock set.


Catalog Number: (470025-266)
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Description: Developed by the National Association of Geology Teachers


Catalog Number: (470025-908)
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Description: A sawn and lacquered slab of classic Precambrian banded layers of hematite (iron) and quartz. Average size: 3" x 4". Ontario, Canada.


Catalog Number: (470026-266)
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Description: Dark, waxy, bitumin-rich.


Catalog Number: (470025-092)
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Description: Ward's® Limestone (Dolomitic)


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Description: A Great Way to Begin Your Petrographic Studies

Catalog Number: (470025-356)
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Description: Examine the Mineral Composition of Sedimentary Rocks


Catalog Number: (470106-756)
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Description: <i>Includes</i>: six each of obsidian, pumice, and basalt. Set of 18.<BR><BR>Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.


Catalog Number: (470026-142)
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Description: Banded volcanic glass.


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Description: Abundant small black phenocrysts in a gray to brown matrix.

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Description: Light gray, fine small clasts.

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Description: Coarse-grained plagioclase and pyroxene with some olivine.

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