The air-abrasive technique: A re-evaluation of its use in fossil preparation
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Issue date
2018-08-02Submitted date
2020-12-29Subject Terms
air-abrasivepreparation
fossil
conservation
air abrasion
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This paper outlines the history of air-abrasion (also known as airbrasion) as a paleontological preparation technique and evaluates various powders and their properties. It explores the rationale behind the selection of abrasive powders and presents, for the first time, trench-scatter experiments through Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photography and three-dimensional (3-D) profiling. This article also offers general practical advice and details the results of an international survey of practising fossil preparators.Citation
Graham, Mark R. and Allington-Jones, Lu. 2018. The air-abrasive technique: A re-evaluation of its use in fossil preparation. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.2T 1-15.Publisher
Coquina PressJournal
Palaeontologia ElectronicaDOI
10.26879/815Type
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Copyright: August 2018 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.NHM Repository
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1935-3952EISSN
1094-8074ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.26879/815
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