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Glues and other stick'ums and patch'ums stabilizing compounds for strengthening fossils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2017

Donald L. Wolberg
Donald L. Wolberg*
Affiliation:
New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801
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All of the taphonomic and other factors involved in fossilization, exposure and collection of fossils affect the preservation state, the condition in which the fossils become available for collection. These factors also determine what should be done to, at the very least, at least maintain that preservation state, and ideally provide a stabilized specimen that can, if desired, be restored. Weathering of rocks and their contained fossils is always a combination of mechanical and chemical processes. The collection of fossils in the field, and later work in the laboratory, attempts to halt or slow those processes (Rixon, 1976; Converse, 1984).

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Techniques for Megafossils
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The Paleontological Society Special Publications , Volume 4: Paleotechniques , 1989 , pp. 249 - 259
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Copyright © 1989 Paleontological Society 

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