Rock Specimens

Perfect for Introductory Lessons on Metamorphic Rocks.

Gray, fine-grained, massive contact rock.

Gray to white, coarse crystalline, carbonate rock.

Unpolished metamorphic rock with silky lusture, red-brown colour, and clear parallel intergrown quartz crystals.

Fightly cemented, medium-to-coarse quartz grains.

Foliated biotite, coarse, silvery gray with quartz-feldspar bands.

Fine crystalline, pure calcite.

White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.

Chlorite-mica with perfect slaty cleavage.

Slaty cleavage; contains hematite.