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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.

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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Supplier: Avantor
Description: Fine to medium-grained with biotite.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Dark gray, with hornblende as the dominant mafic mineral.

Catalog Number: (470025-904)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Sawn and lacquered slab showing thinly bedded truncated layers in a well-cemented sandstone. Large hand specimen.


Catalog Number: (470025-890)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Typical green-gray, fissile, clay-rich.

Catalog Number: (470026-298)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: White, very dark green, and very dark red to light red granoblastic intergrowth of wollastonite, diopside, and andradite.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray to buff, with numerous ooliths and fossil fragments.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Well-cemented, medium-grained orthoquartzite.

Catalog Number: (470014-828)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Students determine a mineral's hardness between five and 10 on Mohs' scale.


Catalog Number: (470106-752)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Includes: six each of conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Set of 18.<BR><BR>Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.


Catalog Number: (470024-964)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Brownish black, intermediate stage between peat and bituminous coal.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Grayish black trap rock.

Catalog Number: (470024-966)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs


Catalog Number: (470226-274)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray to tan clastic rock made of silt sized particles.


Catalog Number: (470226-306)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Anorthosite is an intrusive, igneous rock consisting of predominantly plagioclase feldspar.


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