"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

Brownish gray, kerogen-rich; commercial oil source.

Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.

Specially selected topsoil, 1 lb.

Limestone is a gray calcium carbonate that will fizz with dilute HCl.

Sale

Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock made up rounded quartz pebbles.

Represents a Wide Range of Depositional Environments and Rock Textures

Indicative of Various Sedimentary Formation Processes

Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.

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

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

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

Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.

Fine, common limestone; massive, and will fizzle with HCl.

Useful for weathering and erosion, soil formation, porosity and permeability, or other general earth science labs.

Gray, fine to medium-grained “Berea grit”.

Dark, waxy, bitumin-rich.

Breccia is a sedimentary rock made up of angular rock fragments.