Rock specimens are useful for studying textures, grain sizes, and other features altered by pressure, temperature, and other natural forces. Different select categories of rock specimens are available for purchase as well, including metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks. Sets of rock specimens are housed in compartmentalized collection boxes, with descriptions of each specimen printed for easy confirmation of identification. These rock specimens are carefully selected to be the highest quality to provide students with a suitable introduction to earth materials and their characteristics.
Ward's® Introductory Mineral & Rock Collection With Matching Thin Sections
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Ward's® Porphyry
Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.
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Ward's® Stretch Pebble Conglomerate
Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.
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Wards® Metamorphic Rock Collection
Perfect for Introductory Lessons on Metamorphic Rocks.
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Ward's® Basalt
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.
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Ward's® Andesite (Hornblende)
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.
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Ward's® Science Essentials® Andesite
Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.
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Ward's® Gneiss (Gray Banded)
White and black bands of quartz, feldspar, and biotite; typical foliation.
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Ward's® Specimen Display Sets
A variety of colorful collections to introduce rocks, minerals and fossils.
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Ward's® Dunite
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.
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Ward's® Cross-bedded Sandstone
Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand specimen.
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Ward's® Rock Thin Section
Use these thin-section slides with a polarizing microscope to view rock specimens in detail. Includes: biotite granite, olivine basalt, red sandstone, encrinal limestone, mica schist, augen gneiss, storage box and identification guide.
Note: collections are subject to change depending upon availability of individual items. Set of six.
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Ward's® Obsidian
Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.