Excellet series for college mineralogy and petrology courses.
- Hand cut by Ward's geologists
- Specimens (72), 1×1 to 1×2", conveniently broken up into affordable collections
Allow your students to explore the rock-forming minerals typical of those found in standard textbooks. These sets are housed in compartmented collection boxes and come with information lists with localities.
Rock-forming Set 1: Includes 7 feldspar and 2 feldspathoid
Rock-forming Set 2: Includes 3 mica, 3 pyroxene, and 3 amphiboles
Rock-forming Set 3: Includes 2 olivine, 3 garnet, 2 epidote, 3 aluminosilicates, 1 tourmaline, and 1 topaz
Rock-forming Set 4: Includes 8 quartz, 3 hydrous silicate, and 1 chlorite
Rock-forming Set 5: Includes 2 serpentine, 1 talc, 1 zeolite, and 5 oxides and sulfides
Rock-forming Set 6: Includes 9 oxides and sulfides
Rock-forming Set 7: Includes 1 phosphate and 11 carbonates, sulfates, and halides