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wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Dolostone Type: Sedimentary, chemical. Texture/Appearance: Fine to coarsely crystalline grain size; sugary (saccharoidal). May contain various fossil relicts, molds, and casts. Stratification absent or irregular. Color: Li...

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ward’s sciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Hornfels Type: Metamorphic, regional. Texture/Appearance: Homogeneous; dense, fine-grained. Granoblastic; may have porphyroblasts or any of the minerals present. Color: Varies; light to dark. May be pink, brow...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Gneiss Type: Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance: Foliated, often with distinct banding (segregation) of minerals; some preferred orientation in micas (platy) or hornblende (prismatic crystals). Medium t...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Granite Type: Igneous, intrusive. Texture/Appearance: Massive, medium to coarse-grained; holocrystalline, sometimes porphyritic. Color: White, light gray, pink, or red. Mineralogy/Chemistry: Felsic; composed primarily of q...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Diorite Type: Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance: Massive, generally medium-to-coarse grained; subhedral, equigranular to por- phyritic. Differences in color and grain size are common with orbicular struct...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Siltstone Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Silt-sized (<1/16 mm) to very fine sand-sized particles; massive, not laminated (no bedding planes) may exhibit significant clay or sand. Color: Tan, g...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Pegmatite Type: Igneous; intrusive. Texture/Appearance: Very coarse-grained, marked by intergrowth of large (up to 1 cm) crystals. In some instances, individual crystals may grow up to several feet. Color: Varies; mostly l...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Graywacke Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Generally coarse-grained with angular to sub-angular, poorly sorted grains in a clayey matrix. May show graded bedding; fossils are rare. Color: Gray to greenish-gr...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Limestone Type: Sedimentary; chemical or clastic. Texture/Appearance: Fine to coarsely crystalline; varieties may be dense, compact and graded to brecciated, styliolitic, or oolitic. Stratification usually ind...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Tuff Type: Igneous; extrusive (pyroclastic). Texture/Appearance: Clastic texture with angular rock and mineral fragments and lapilli mixed with fine-grained volcanic ash, partly cemented by sedimentary materia...

+ward’ssciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Arkose Type: Sedimentary; clastic. Texture/Appearance: Usually coarse-grained, sometimes with pebbles. Angular to subangular, poorly to moderately well-sorted sand grains. No Fossils. Color: Gray, pink or redd...

wardsci.com 800-962-2660 Rhyolite Type: Igneous; extrusive. Texture/Appearance: Fine-grained, cryptocrystalline (and glassy) to microcrystalline; often porphyritic. May show flow banding. Color: Light colored; pink, gray, and purple. Mineralogy/Ch...

ward’s sciencewardsci.com800-962-2660 Greenstone Type: Metamorphic; regional. Texture/Appearance: Fine-grained, massive or compact; generally non-schistose. Color: Dark, green. Mineralogy/Chemistry: Mainly composed of chlorite, actinolite, epidote...