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The air-abrasive technique: a re-evaluation of its use in fossil preparation.

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2018-08
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2018-08-10
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air-abrasive
preparation
fossils
conservation
air abrasion
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This paper outlines the history of air-abrasion (also known as airbrasion) as a palaeontological 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
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Coquina Press
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Palaeontologia Electronica
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http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622408
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10.26879/815
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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. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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1935-3952
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1094-8074
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