"Ward"

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.

Brownish gray, kerogen-rich; commercial oil source.

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.

In the Instant Snow Lab Activity, students observe the superabsorbent property of a chemical polymer.

Manual counting made simple.

Small, rounded pebbles and tightly cemented granules.

Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.

Examine how a microscope works.

Gray andesite with phenocrysts of felspar and/or hornblende.

Monitor and graph temperature change in an endothermic reaction.

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.

Dark gray with abundant gas pocket vesicles.

Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.