Department of Earth and Environmental Science:
Collections
Room 356:
Cabinets and storage areas are highlighted in blue. Click on each one to see what it contains.
| ENVS 200 and |
GEOL 100 |
GEOL 130 |
GEOL 130 |
| Igneous rock set |
Coriolis effect demo |
settling rate jar |
slides: |
| Metamorphic rock set |
Educational videos |
HCl |
copepod |
| Sedimentary rock set |
"owl pellets" |
empty microscope slides |
globigerina |
| Mineral set |
fake sugar |
occular microscopes |
foraminifera |
| compasses |
radioactive materials |
paint brushes |
blue green algae |
| handlens |
mineral ID test equipment |
snails |
diatom |
| geiger counter + toolbox |
sterescopes |
starfish |
raiolaria |
| rain gauges (stakes) |
dry erase markers |
wet specimens (list below) |
zooplankton |
wet specimens: scallops, oysters, clams, jellyfish, sea urchin, kelp, sea cucumber, sea anemone, squid, chiton, barnacles, crabs
| Special Collections |
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Unlabeled |
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| dendrites |
flute casts |
mineral lab 1 & 2 |
mudcracks |
| unlabeled mineral inclusion |
limestone solution channels |
dendrites |
Yellowstone Nat. Park |
| trace fossils |
crossbedding |
weathering pressure |
Armenian collection |
| ripple marks |
lacustrine deposits |
coal |
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| rocks from Leigh Tunnel |
solnhofen |
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| Grand Canyon |
all coal |
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| Extra Trays/Sediment |
Unlabeled |
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| empty trays |
Thayer samples |
mineral samples |
| playdough |
cores |
teaching equipment |
| Quaternary stratigraphy |
sediment jars |
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| sediment jars |
Wards samples |
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| Igneous Rocks |
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Sedimentary Rocks |
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| plantae |
Sandstone: fine & med gr. |
arjilite |
chalk |
| porphyritic |
asbestos, gypsum, talc |
limestone w/thin section |
glauconitic |
rocks from construction site |
sphalerite |
fossiliferous |
conglomerate & breccia |
| feldspar |
pegmatite |
mudstone etc |
limestone |
| large sedimentary |
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Sandstone: coarse & arkose |
chert |
| Vertebrate Paleo Materials |
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Minerals: Special Collection |
| skulls, antlers & horns |
vertebrate teeth |
(including radioactive |
| plantae |
brachiopoda |
materials) |
| vertebrates |
tracks |
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| fish & amphibians |
teeth and casts |
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Dr. Doheny's Collection: Please get permission from Dr. Doheny before removing any specimens
Easels: Available for class presentations and intradepartment conferences. Please contact Kaitlin McCann before removing them. |
Collections
History of the Collections
Overview of the Collections
Teaching Collections
Accessing the Collections
Collections Staff
Collections Location
Contact
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
240 S. 33rd Street
Hayden Hall
Philadelphia, PA
19104-6316
nmccann@sas.upenn.edu
(T) - 215-746-0086
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