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Specimens of Frosterley Marble, collected from Harewood Quarry, Co. Durham in the UK. Frosterley Marble is not actually a marble, but rather a black limestone consisting of Carboniferous age fossil corals. This makes it a sedimentary rock. The most famous use of Frosterley Marble is in Durham Cathedral where the ceiling of the Ceiling of the Chapel of Nine Altars has slender column supports composed from this stone. These specimens are available in multiple sizes and come supplied in a white card tray with an information label.
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Specimens of Frosterley Marble, collected from Harewood Quarry, Co. Durham in the UK. Frosterley Marble is not actually a marble, but rather a black limestone consisting of Carboniferous age fossil corals. This makes it a sedimentary rock. The most famous use of Frosterley Marble is in Durham Cathedral where the ceiling of the Ceiling of the Chapel of Nine Altars has slender column supports composed from this stone. These specimens are available in multiple sizes and come supplied in a white card tray with an information label.
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Specimens of Crinoidal Limestone, collected from Derbyshire in the UK. Limestone is a common, well known sedimentary rock. It consists of the calcium-rich shells, bones, and skeletons of the fauna that dominated during that period. It was laid down approximately 350 million years ago in semi tropical seas and comes from the Dinantian epoch of the Lower Carboniferous. This limestone in particular contains crinoids which are a group of ancient marine invertebrates, and part of the sea lily family. Specimens are available in various sizes and come supplied in a white card tray with information label.
We also supply Crinoidal Limestone thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
288 in stock
Specimens of Oolitic Limestone, collected from Gloucestershire in the UK. Oolitic Limestone is a carbonate rock, that consists mostly of ooliths (or ooids). These are sand-sized carbonate particles (0.25 -2.0mm) built up of concentric shells of precipitated calcium carbonate (CaCO3). These layers form around sand grains or shell fragments that roll around on a shallow sub tropical sea floor, gathering layers of carbonate. Around the Cotswold Hills, the honey coloured stone has been the favoured building material for centuries. Many local picturesque hamlets showcase this. These specimens tend to be a little more friable than the examples from Yorkshire. These specimens are Mid Jurassic in age. They are available in multiple sizes and supplied in a white card tray with information label.
We also supply Oolitic Limestone thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
300 in stock
Specimens of Coral Limestone, collected from Anglesey. Limestone is a common, well known sedimentary rock. It consists of the calcium-rich shells, bones, and skeletons of the fauna that dominated during that period. These specimens date to the Palaeozoic era around 300 million years ago. They were laid down in shallow tropical seas around 300 million years ago, in the Carboniferous. The composition of these specimens is primarily Lithostrotion corals. They are available in multiple sizes and come supplied in a white card tray with an information label.
We also supply Coral Limestone thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
50 in stock
Specimens of Limestone, collected from Derbyshire. Limestone is a common, well known sedimentary rock. It consists of the calcium-rich shells, bones, and skeletons of the fauna that dominated during that period. It was laid down approximately 350 million years ago in semi tropical seas and comes from the Dinantian epoch of the Lower Carboniferous. This rock is very pure, about 98% soluble in rainwater (over time) leaving only residual clay. Its uses include aggregate, building stone, the manufacture of cement, paper & calcium carbide. Available in various sizes, each piece comes supplied in a white card tray with information label.
We also supply Limestone thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
100 in stock
Specimens of Cannonball Limestone, collected from around the Hartlepool area, in the UK. This is a very distinctive and rare form of limestone known as Cannonball rock. It is part of the Rocker formation; a basin slope deposit which comprises part of the Zechstein Group. This is a highly studied sedimentary formation which dates to the Mid to Late Permian Period. These specimens are small, and come supplied in a 1.5″ x 1.5″ plastic magnifier box with an information label.
5 in stock
This granite pegmatite contains large sheets of muscovite mica, orthoclase feldspar and quartz matrix. An excellent teaching material which comes from Southern Norway. Each specimen comes in a labelled card tray.
Out of stock
Biotite granite from Spain exhibiting plagioclase feldspar, quartz and biotite mica, specimens have been cut and polished on one surface allowing easy viewing of the crystals without the aid of magnification.
2 in stock
Pink Granite, rich in potassium feldspars giving the distinctive pink hue, easily identifiable as a granite due to its mineral composition. Specimens come from Scotland and are supplied in a card tray with label.
8 in stock
Metagabbro specimens from Lom, Central Norway. Also known as scapolite-hornblende due to the absence of feldspar in the rock are available in 3 optional sizes and come supplied in a card tray with a data label.
40 in stock
Specimens of Puddingstone, collected from Hertfordshire, UK. Puddingstone is a variation of conglomerate, which is term used to describe a coarse grained sedimentary rock, featuring large, well rounded clasts in a finer grained matrix. It dates back to the Paleocene to Eocene period around 56 millions years ago. This particular rock is composed almost entirely of silica and has no porosity, likely contributing to its notorious hardness. This rare rock is only found in quantity at one locality in Hertfordshire. As such, it is becoming exceedingly difficult to obtain. This rock is available in multiple sizes and each piece comes supplied in a white card tray with information label.
Accretionary lapilli tuff is an igneous pyroclastic rock, these samples come from Longsleddle, Cumbria in the UK and forms when hot ash and debris is ejected from as volcano. Some of this material is held together by moisture and once heavy enough, falls into the ash below forming small ‘spots’ within the material, creating a speckled rock. The samples are suitable both for young and serious collectors as well as educational use and are supplied in various sizes with a card tray and label.
65 in stock
Essexite igneous rock specimens from Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, also known as olivine or nepheline monzogabbro is an intrusive rock with mafic chemistry, composed of nepheline and plagioclase feldspar along with olivine, magnetite minerals as well as augite phenocrysts which exhibit euhedral crystal forms. The rock has a dense weight and overall dark colouration but attractive appearance. It is locally known as Crawfordjohns and was highly sought after as a high quality material to produce curling stones. These samples are excellent for young and older collectors as well as higher educational use, the pieces are available in three sizes and come supplied in a card tray with an information label.
We also supply Essexite thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
51 in stock
Olivine dolerite igneous rock specimens from Clee Hill, Shropshire, UK, composed of pyroxene minerals such as augite and magnetite as well as plagioclase feldspar. The samples are fine grained and crystalline in texture with a dense weight and black colouration. Similar in appearance to gabbro and basalt, the rock samples are suitable for serious collectors or higher level education to explain the difference in chemistry and mineralogy of igneous rocks. The samples are available in three sizes and supplied in a card tray with an information label.
We also supply Olivine Dolerite thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
62 in stock
Phonolite igneous rock specimens, an intrusive crystalline version of nepheline syenite, this rock lies between felsic and mafic composition, collected from Traprain Law, Soctland, the name of the rock is derived from the ancient Greek word which means ‘sounding stone’. Which alludes to the feature this rock has of emitting a metallic ringing when struck. Samples are available in various sizes and come supplied in a card tray with a label.
44 in stock
Greisen metamorphic rock specimens from Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, composed mainly of quartz and mica with an off yellow colouration. The rock is known as an endoskarn and forms when hydrothermal fluid and heat alter a granitic body, resulting a heavily altered rock which may contain trace amounts of rare elements. These samples are suitable for advanced collectors and higher level education and are available in three sizes, each pieces will come supplied in a card tray with a label.
We also supply Greisen thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
18 in stock
Peridotite, found in Finland, is a dense, coarse grained igneous rock. It is commonly used in saunas due to certain porpertie. These rock specimens are ideal teaching aids or collectors specimens. Supplied in a card tray with label, offered in 3 optional sizes.
We also supply Peridotite thin sections for microscope study which are available to buy HERE.
32 in stock
Rhyolite Felsite, a highly felsitic composed variation of Rhyolite, found in Fife, Scotland, an extrusive igneous rock composed of sodium, quartz and feldspar, thus often having a pale white to pink colouration. Available in various sizes and supplied in a card tray with an information label.
32 in stock
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