Comparative Collections

• Large comparative faunal collection including over 200 provenienced skeletons of mammals, birds,
  reptiles, amphibians, and fish from North Carolina
• Fully-Articulated and Mounted teaching skeletons of common small animals
• North Carolina Rock and Mineral Teaching Collection including NCGS sample kits
• 100-specimen “Standard” North American Rock Comparative Collection
• 150-specimen “University Systematic” Mineral Collection
• 50-specimen “Washington School” mineral and rock comparative collection
• Luster, Streak, Tenacity, Cleavage, and Fracture Type Geology Collections
• Extensive Sediment Type and Composition comparative collection
• North Carolina Rhyolite Sample Collections from over 40 locations, anchored by the systematic L. Abbott
  Rhyolite Survey Assemblage (Abbott 1987)
• Chert sample collections include the Rio Maior Azinheira Ridge Chert Reference Collection of over 200
  cherts from central Portugal