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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: Gray to tan clastic rock made of silt sized particles.

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Description: Anorthosite is an intrusive, igneous rock consisting of predominantly plagioclase feldspar.

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Description: Gabbro is Mafic igneous rock formed deep underground consisting of olivine and pyroxene.

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Description: Gray, fine, friable, with abundant small sanidine crystal fragments.

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Description: Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs

Catalog Number: (470025-316)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Buy Both the Thin Section Set and the Hand Specimen Set and Save!


Catalog Number: (470025-354)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Examine the Mineral Composition of Igneous Rocks


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Description: Glassy; most specimens float in water.

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Description: Shiny black volcanic glass showing conchoidal fracture and some spherulites.

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

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Description: Grayish black trap rock.

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Description: Fine crystalline, pure calcite.

Catalog Number: (470015-460)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.

Catalog Number: (470025-884)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Ward's® Dike Rock


Catalog Number: (470016-502)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: This kit introduces students to igneous rocks.


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