DD Fossils

Volcanics II

Additional volcanic specimens suitable for personal collections or educational purposes.

Mount Vesuvius lava slice collection
- Two distinct lava types collected from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
- Includes a dense lava fragment with widely spaced air bubbles and a highly vesicular form packed full of tightly spaced gas bubbles.
- £15.00
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Mount Vesuvius slide mount collection March 1944
- A neat collection of material mounted in 7 microsample slides.
- Collected after the March 1944 eruption (when World War II was still raging).
- Includes medium and fine grained ash, black and red lava and pumice, sulphur and olivine.
- £35.00
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Mount Vesuvius thin section pair
- A pair of thin sections taken from rocks collected on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.
- Includes granite and leucite, both of which are suitable for polarising studies.
- £20.00
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Death Valley, California Lava slice pair
- Two different coloured specimens of lava from the Death Valley region of California.
- Included are an example of both the red and the black forms that dominate the landscape.
- £15.00
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Florissant 34 million year old Ash Bed
- These beautiful samples are from the fossil beds of Florissant, Colorado and show the exceptional stratigraphy of the site.
- Each slice shows a thick, yellow volcanic ash bed sitting above the lake sediments.
- One of the most distinct examples of bedded stratigraphy that we have and a frm favourite.
- £15.00
- In stock