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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.

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Catalog Number: (470025-352)

Geo-logic Metamorphic Rock Set

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Description: Altered Igneous and Sedimentary Rocks are Clearly Represented

Catalog Number: (470024-866)

Ward's® Mineral Thin Sections Set

Description: Forty mineral thin sections for Petrography Studies

Ward's® Andesite (Porphyry)

Description: Gray andesite with large, blocky hornblende phenocrysts.

Ward's® Igneous Rock Collection

Description: Samples of Intrusive and Extrusive Igneous Rocks

Ward's Science Essentials® Conglomerate

Description: Conglomerate is a sedimentary rock made up rounded quartz pebbles.

Ward's® Science Essentials® Andesite

Description: Introduce your students to Gray Andesite with large phenocrysts of hornblende.

Catalog Number: (470226-464)

Ward's Science Essentials® Sedimentary Rocks Collection

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Description: Introduce your students to rocks formed from deposition of sediment.

Catalog Number: (470024-962)

Ward's® Intro to Petrography Thin Sections and Rock Set

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Description: Set of Nine Thin Sections and Matching Rocks

Ward's Science Essentials® Granite

Description: Porphyritic igneous rock containing biotite, feldspar, and hornblende.

Ward's® Science Essentials® Pegmatite

Description: Pegmatite is igneous rock similar to granite but with larger crystals.

Catalog Number: (470025-170)

Ward's® Know Your Minerals and Rocks Collection

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Description: Everything Students Need to Work Independently to Identify Rocks and Minerals

Catalog Number: (470025-364)

Ward's® GEO-Logic Rock & Thin Section Bundle

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Description: Save Over $100 on This Complete Petrology Teaching Package!

Catalog Number: (470026-310)

Soil, Horizon A

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Description: Specially selected topsoil, 1 lb.

Catalog Number: (470226-386)

Ward's Science Essentials® Limestone

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Description: Limestone is a gray calcium carbonate that will fizz with dilute HCl.

Catalog Number: (470106-374)

Ward's® Rock Thin Section

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Description: 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. <BR><BR>Note: collections are subject to change depending upon availability of individual items. Set of six.