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Represents a Wide Range of Depositional Environments and Rock Textures

Includes: six each of conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Set of 18.

Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.

Indicative of Various Sedimentary Formation Processes

Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.

Gray and poorly sorted, with a gritty texture.

Cemented glacial gravel.

Buff-colored, coarse, detrital limestone, with cemented shell fragments.

Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.

Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.

Gray to brown mudstone with abundant silt.

Dense and massive.

Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.

Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.

Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.

Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.

Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.