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.
- £
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Mount Vesuvius slide mount collection March 1944
- A neat collection of material mounted in 5 microsample slides.
- Collected after the March 1944 eruption (when World War II was still raging).
- Includes medium black and red and fine grained ash, sulphur and peridotite.
- £
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Mount Vesuvius thin section pair
- £
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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.
- £
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Florissant 34 million year old Ash Bed medium slice pair
- 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 firm favourite.
- Slices measure approximately 5cm
- You get two different slices per purchase that show different bedding thicknesses representing different ash falls
- £
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Florissant 34 million year old Ash Bed Larger Slice
- 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 firm favourite.
- Slices measure ~10cm
- £
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