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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® Limestone (Encrinal)

Catalog Number: (470025-080)
Supplier: VWR
Description: When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.
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Sargent Welch Sedimentary Rock Collection

Catalog Number: (470016-504)
Supplier: VWR
Description: The Sedimentary Rock Collection introduces students to sedimentary rocks.
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Ward's® Ventifact

Catalog Number: (470025-898)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Ward's® Ventifact
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Sediment Comparators

Catalog Number: (470218-840)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Without Glued-On Grains That Wear Off, Chart Stands up to Repeated use.
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Ward's® Hornfels

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray, fine-grained, massive contact rock.

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Ward's® Limestone (Oolitic)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.

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Ward's® Granite (Gray)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Fine to medium-grained with biotite.

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Ward's® Siltstone

Supplier: VWR
Description: Gray to brown mudstone with abundant silt.

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Ward's® Gabbro (Hornblende)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Dark gray, with hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral.

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Ward's® Skarn

Catalog Number: (470026-298)
Supplier: VWR
Description: White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.
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Ward's® Shale (Argillaceous)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.

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Ward's® Cross-bedded Sandstone

Catalog Number: (470025-904)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand specimen.
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Ward's® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate

Catalog Number: (470025-890)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Ward's® Sandstone (White)

Supplier: VWR
Description: Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.

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Sedimentary Rock Set of 18

Catalog Number: (470106-752)
Supplier: VWR
Description: Includes: six each of conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Set of 18.<BR><BR>Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.
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Ward's Science Essentials® Gray Gneiss

Supplier: VWR
Description: High grade metamorphosed rock showing bands of quartz, feldspar, and biotite.

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