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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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Ward's Science Essentials® Muscovite

Description: Muscovite is a mica mineral cut to demonstrate basal cleavage.

Ward's Science Essentials® Bituminous Shale

Description: Bituminous rich black shale for hands-on investigations.

Ward's Science Essentials® Obsidian

Description: Obsidian is hard black colored, volcanic glass.

Ward's Science Essentials® Pink Gneiss

Description: Pink Gneiss is foliated pink and black bands of biotite.

Ward's® Build Your Own Collection Kits

Description: Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

Ward's® Limestone (Shell)

Description: Buff, coarse, crystalline “Austin Marble” with shell casts and molds.

Ward's® Marble (Coarse White)

Description: Coarse crystalline, carbonate.

Ward's® Dolostone (Gray)

Description: Dense Dolostone.

Catalog Number: (470106-756)

Ward's® Igneous Rock Set of 18

Retrieving Kit

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: (470025-356)

GEO-logic Sedimentary Rocks Thin Section Topic Set

Retrieving Each

Description: Examine the Mineral Composition of Sedimentary Rocks

Catalog Number: (470026-142)

Ward's® Obsidian (Brown and Black)

Retrieving Pack

Description: Banded volcanic glass.

Catalog Number: (470025-128)

[NA_SciEd] Ward's® Quartzite (Kyanite)

Retrieving Each

Description: [NA_SciEd] Ward's® Quartzite (Kyanite)

Catalog Number: (470026-312)

Soil, Horizon C

Retrieving Pound

Description: Specially selected subsoil, 1 lb.

Ward's® Specimen Display Sets

Description: A variety of colorful collections to introduce rocks, minerals and fossils.

Catalog Number: (470178-522)

Ripple Marks

Retrieving Each

Description: Clearly preserved ripple marks in bedded sedimentary rock. Average slab size: 6 x 8".

Catalog Number: (470025-044)

Ward's® Dunite

Retrieving Each

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.