Rock Specimens
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® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate
Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Ward's® Porphyry
Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.
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Ward's® Cross-bedded Sandstone
Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand specimen.
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Ward's® Petrology Collection of Rocks and Minerals Series
Advanced study series of almost 100 specimens.
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Ward's® Classroom Rock Collection
Survey set improves student's recognition of all three major rock groups.
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Ward's® Rock Thin Section
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.
Note: collections are subject to change depending upon availability of individual items. Set of six.
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Ward's® AGI/NAGT Laboratory Rock Set
Specimens To Supplement the Most Widely-Used College Lab Manual for Physical Geology
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Ward's® Introductory Mineral & Rock Collection With Matching Thin Sections
Buy Both the Thin Section Set and the Hand Specimen Set and Save!
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Ward's® Tiger Eye
Unpolished metamorphic rock with silky lusture, red-brown colour, and clear parallel intergrown quartz crystals.