"Ward's® Thermochemistry In The Bag Inquiry Demonstration Activities"

Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.

Our excellent series of standard thin sections features important and interesting rock-forming mineral types most often found in field samples.

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.

Cut black mica cleavage sheets.

Good grade, bronze-colored ore, massive.

Feldspar group; white to gray, sodium plagioclase cleavages; some faces may show twinning.