"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

Light gray, fine small clasts.

Dense and massive.

Hematite-cemented quartz; orthoquartzite.

Chlorite-bearing.

Gray to white, coarse crystalline, carbonate rock.

Fine crystalline, pure calcite.

Gray, fine, friable, with abundant small sanidine crystal fragments.

Grayish black trap rock.

Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.

Glassy; most specimens float in water.

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

Light gray, fine-grained, well-foliated, schistose.

Survey set improves student's recognition of all three major rock groups.

Gray-to-brown basaltic, with over 50% vesicles.

Previously known as the syracuse university mineral and rock set.

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