"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

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.