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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.

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Catalog Number: (470226-462)

Ward's Science Essentials® Igneous Rocks Collection

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Description: Introduce your students to rocks formed from the cooling of magma and lava.

Ward's® Petrology Collection of Rocks and Minerals Series

Description: Advanced study series of almost 100 specimens.

Catalog Number: (470025-176)

Washington School Collection

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Description: A comprehensive classroom survey set of minerals and rocks.

Catalog Number: (470025-166)

Ward's® Introductory Mineral and Rock Collection

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Description: Examples of the most basic rocks and rock-forming minerals.

Ward's® Coal (Anthracite)

Description: Lustrous, black 'hard coal'.

Catalog Number: (470026-810)

Ward's® GEO-Logic Types of Fossilization Topic Set

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Description: Define and compare ways organisms have been preserved.

Ward's Science Essentials® Microcline

Description: Pink feldspar mineral with a moh's hardness 6.

Ward's Science Essentials® Pyroxenite

Description: Pyroxenite is ultramafic igneous rock made up of primarily pyroxene minerals.

Ward's® White Marble

Description: Gray to white metamorphosed carbonate rock.

Ward's® Gneiss (Pink Banded)

Description: Pink and gray bands, with biotite; shows good foliation.

Ward's® Conglomerate (Quartz)

Description: Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.

Ward's® Conglomerate (Kame)

Description: Cemented glacial gravel.

Catalog Number: (470025-080)

Ward's® Limestone (Encrinal)

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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.