Rock Specimens

Students discover the variety of rocks and minerals with this collection.

Soil

Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

Green shale which contains approximately 85% Illite. Impurities may include other clay minerals, such as micas and feldspars.

1 pound of black sand packaged in a heat-sealed bag.

This collection with rock types and associations with the North American continent contains 100 specimens with each group represented: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. Specimens are approximately 1"" x 1"", number-coded in compartmented container.

Students determine a mineral's hardness between five and 10 on Mohs' scale.

Striking display slab of trachyte that hass been cut, ground and laquered.