"Dessus de bouchon"

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.

Examples of the most basic rocks and rock-forming minerals.

Define and compare ways organisms have been preserved.

Specimens Illustrate Smooth Mineral Breakage

Clear examples of a key method of identification.

Himalayan mineral great for teaching and display.

Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand specimen.

Cut and finished samples with fiberoptic samples.

Introduce your students to a broad selection of minerals.

Geometric Shapes and Structures of Crystalline Minerals.

Give Your Students a Lesson in Economics as Well as Geology

Explore the differences of how light interacts with the surface of a mineral.

Silvery, paragranite and muscovite-rich with medium garnet crystals.

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

Previously known as the syracuse university mineral and rock set.

Beautifully polished and distinctive slabs or rare 2.3 billion year old fossil stromatolites. Well defined growth structures in matrix.