Variety of Metamorphic Rocks
A piece of natural slate
Slate, Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Phyllite, deformed metamorphic rock
Welsh slate, close up
Slate roofing
Quartz phyllite
Slate
Cubic zirconia
Rock strain fringes, light micrograph
Quartz phyllite, light micrograph
Slate outcrop, France
Slate mining
Tourmaline mica in slate
Slate showing stratum lines, full frame
Rock types
Sedimentary Rocks
Andelusite crystals in slate
Deformed quartz veins in slate
Slate with pyrite
Pyrophyllite
Variety of Sedimentary Rocks
Green marl
Devonian slates
Chert, a type of sedimentary rock
A piece of black shale, close-up
Shale specimen
Limestone specimen
Arkose, a sedimentary rock
Yellow Sandstone
Arkose, a sedimentary rock, Massachusetts
Septarian nodule
Limestone rock, close up
Folds of calcite in limestone rock
Concretion of sand and iron on Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, USA
Banded flint
Sandstone
Bunter sandstone
Flute marks on mudstone
Sample of sandstone
Sample of shale
Greywacke
Sample of limestone
Heap of ground coal
Near metallic lustre of anthracite rock
Close up of a pattern in Sandstone, Utah
Sedimentary rock concretion
Cross-bedding in sandstone rock
Pink orthoquartzite
Gypsum rock
Shale, close-up
Sandstone rock formation, South Africa
Unrefined piece of jet
ストーン
スレート
Spotted slate
Samples of sandstone
Red Shale
Shale
Shale with fossilized ripple marks
Sandstone, Utah, USA
Shale, California, USA
Shale, close up
Calcareous mudstone
Anthracite
Ammonite fossils
Magnification of grain of sandstone rock
Sample of coal
Sandstone specimen
Lignite Coal specimen
Flint and Chalk, Dover, England
Cannel Coal, Kentucky, USA
Bituminous Coal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Anthracite Coal, Pennsylvania, USA
Lignite, Brandon, Vermont, USA
Coal Essex Junction, Vermont, USA
Calcite in mudstone
Flint stone
Stalactite
Fossiliferous Limey Shale, New York, USA
Quartz filled concretion
Retiolites fossil on shale
Coral limestone
Spriggina fossil
Variety of Igneous Rocks
Polarised LM of thin section of greywacke
Layers of sedimentary rock in Chimborazo, Ecuador
Lump of coal, close up
English stonecrop
Quartzite metamorphic rock
Fossil Starfish preserved in Shale
Onychiopsis fern fossilised in siltstone
Black and red banded Ironstone
Septarian concretion in claystone
Jet (lignite) rough
Flint
Mudstone
Mawsonite in sandstone
Copper salts on a rock
Conichalcite and adamite
Marble pebbles
Sliced specimen of Petrified Wood
Prismatic parallel crystals of allanite
Halloysite, a form of Kaolinite
Cross-section of a Petrified Fern stem
Pile of coal
Rock concretions
Limestone pavement
Rock salt
Karst erosion in the Italian Apennines
Sedimentary rock outcrop
Glacial sediments
Polished limestone
Gypsum and sulphur crystals
Rock salt crystals
Anthracite coal
Sea stack, Wales
Limestone cave
Shelly limestone, polarised LM
Nummulitic limestone, LM
Nummulitic Limestone, LM
Ganister, polarised light micrograph
Carboniferous limestone pavement, Malham Cove
Quartz and schist outcrops
Hertfordshire puddingstone
Selenite crystals
Ancient Roman columns
Gogotte, fossilised sandstone concretion
Gogotte fossilised sandstone concretion, close-up
Layered flysch sediments
Mineral deposits in sandstone
Tufa
Ancient sand and shell layers
Titanium deposits on a beach
Bunter sandstone, light micrograph
Limestone, light micrograph
Limestone
Val Gardena sandstone, light micrograph
Val Gardena sandstone
Technique for creating a flint tool
Bouma sequence in flysch
Limestone with Turritella shell fossils