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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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Ward's® Build Your Own Collection Kits

Description: Everything You Need to Organize Your Specimens

Catalog Number: (470025-896)

Ward's® Mantle Xenolith

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Description: Glossy green dunite (olivine) inclusion in non-genetically related basalt. Average size: 3" x 4".

Ward's Science Essentials® Bituminous Shale

Description: Bituminous rich black shale for hands-on investigations.

Catalog Number: (470106-756)

Ward's® Igneous Rock Set of 18

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Description: <i>Includes</i>: six each of obsidian, pumice, and basalt. Set of 18.<BR><BR>Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.

Ward's Science Essentials® Pink Gneiss

Description: Pink Gneiss is foliated pink and black bands of biotite.

Ward's® Introductory Mineral & Rock Thin Section Set

Description: A Great Way to Begin Your Petrographic Studies

Ward's Science Essentials® Muscovite

Description: Muscovite is a mica mineral cut to demonstrate basal cleavage.

Catalog Number: (470026-312)

Soil, Horizon C

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Description: Specially selected subsoil, 1 lb.

Catalog Number: (470025-128)

[NA_SciEd] Ward's® Quartzite (Kyanite)

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Description: [NA_SciEd] Ward's® Quartzite (Kyanite)

Ward's® Metamorphic Petro-Lab Set

Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs.

Ward's® Specimen Display Sets

Description: A variety of colorful collections to introduce rocks, minerals and fossils.

Catalog Number: (470039-542)

Sediment Settler Kit

Description: Discover What Sediment is and its Impact on the Environment

Catalog Number: (470178-522)

Ripple Marks

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Description: Clearly preserved ripple marks in bedded sedimentary rock. Average slab size: 6 x 8".

Catalog Number: (470025-044)

Ward's® Dunite

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Description: 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.