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What do YOU do to preserve beach-found pyrite fossils in order to stop them oxidizing and falling apart...? Share tips and advice with others here...
Started by rockpervert on
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A continuous and easily-accessible supply of pH-neutral distilled H20, if I find pyrite fossils somewhat on the fossil, as if it's already quite oxidized and "rusty" looking, then I'll soak for less time one pyrite fossil that looks....
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Fellow fossils. How many of the? things you could do at the age of 30, can you still do?
I used to fence, play badminton, squash and league table-tennis. Now I am gasping and wheezing after using a tin-opener.
Even worse, I lost sight of my appendages...
Started by Matthew Hopkins on
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You always make us....
Fossil indeed, oh well yes maybe just a tad goodness for you.
Ooh Matthew you cheeky thing who are you calling a fossil !!!
Thirty statues or who can sit quietly for the longest etc.
Was an English witch hunter" Wiki.
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First trip to the Yorkshire coast in months and it had to be in the coldest UK December ever. For those who don't know, the Holderness is on the east coast of the UK near the port of Hull and comprises fast eroding cliffs of glacial boulder clay. The ...
Started by tortoise on
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Looks a great place for a day out: actually, when I see cliffs like that they make me salivate... .
Total finds - 1 Dactylioceras commune and a small Arnioceras containing pebble .
The 4th pic down shows a raft of cretaceous chalk still embedded in the clay .
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What percentage of sedimentary rock has fossils in it ?
Started by coffeeman on
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I think you'll have to google for this - I came up with "lots" http:// library .thinkq ....org /J00228 9/sed.h tml .
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Technique for finding fossils I have a boat I dock in Sarasota, and have been thinking about making some trips off venice beach to dive for fossils. I was wondering what the best technique for finding fossils on the bottom is. Is it better to just slowly...
Started by diverdoug1 on
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Other types of fossils other than teeth and you may just find something rare and never found before There's a couple of good small books w/pics that'll help identify the most common fossils/teeth of fossils and you'll have a greater....
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Depending on your fossil and locality where it was found there are many different techniques used in cleaning and preserving them. We will start with our area of Venice and gulf water fossils.
Before cleaning your important fossils do a visual inspection...
Started by Fossilbabe on
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After major cleaning....
Start by rinsing your fossils, colanders YOUR FOSSILS
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Cleaning and preserving river fossils:
Before cleaning your important fossils do a visual pressure on those areas (cracks) while you start cleaning.
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Here's Ro's newest creation, a ring made with a malachite sphere from Africa, wrapped with copper, a true match as malachite is a copper mineral.
Started by dinodad on
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Very nice work, ....
Here's a malachite/copper necklace and earrings set Ro made.
As with the ring, the malachite is from the Congo and was cut and polished by her before she mounted it on the bracelet .
Here's a copper/malachite bracelet Ro just finished.
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Fossilized antlers, teeth and wood dug up near Europe's storied Rhine River indicate the *waterway is 5 million years older than many scientists had thought, according to new research.
http://news.yahoo.com/rhine-fossils-...220738726.html
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Why can't we ever find the middle fossils? Such as a fish with tiny legs or a lizard growing wings? But instead all we have are just completely different animals with no proof that it's slowly changing into something much bigger or smaller or even about...
Started by xRevolutionx on
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Your confusionThere is a whole series of fossils that have a progression of fins to legs (Panderichthys://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/searching4… We ....
Every creature/fossil is a middle piece.
'Middle fossils' are everywhere.
Difficult.
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Http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16578330
A "treasure trove" of fossils - including some collected by Charles Darwin - has been re-discovered in an old cabinet. The fossils, lost for some 165 years, were found by chance in the vaults of the...
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