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Department of Civil Engineering, Surrey University

Geology Teaching Laboratory
University of Surrey
Guildford

Open: to public, by appointment only.
Size: approx. 1200 specimens plus maps, air photos, models, teaching aides, and rock (geotechnical) testing facilities

Content:
Basic reference collections of British fossils and minerals and more comprehensive rock collection(s) of local and non-local rocks including gravel aggregates, sands, clays, limestone, sandstone and igneous rocks from roadstone quarries. Also rock thin-sections.

Locally studied rocks include the Bargate Stone and chalk from the Guildford area.