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: Porphyritic igneous rock containing biotite, feldspar, and hornblende.

Catalog Number: (470025-170)
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Description: Everything Students Need to Work Independently to Identify Rocks and Minerals


Catalog Number: (470315-514)
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Description: Perfect for introductory lessons on metamorphic rocks.


Catalog Number: (470026-310)
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Description: Specially selected topsoil, 1 lb.


Catalog Number: (470106-374)
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Description: Use these thin-section slides with a polarizing microscope to view rock specimens in detail. Includes: biotite granite, olivine basalt, red sandstone, encrinal limestone, mica schist, augen gneiss, storage box and identification guide. <BR><BR>Note: collections are subject to change depending upon availability of individual items. Set of six.


Catalog Number: (470025-364)
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Description: Save Over $100 on This Complete Petrology Teaching Package!


Catalog Number: (470025-358)
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Description: Examine the Mineral Composition of Metamorphic Rocks.


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Description: Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.

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Description: Light gray, fine small clasts.

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Description: Classic, dark; from the Columbia Plateau.

Catalog Number: (470025-896)
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Description: Glossy green dunite (olivine) inclusion in non-genetically related basalt. Average size: 3" x 4".


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Description: Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

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Description: Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.

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

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Description: Dense Dolostone.

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Description: Chlorite-bearing.

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