Re: Stabilizing a fossil in a friable shale

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I have been happy with the PaleoBond line of products. They are varying
degrees of viscosity and so far have held up well.

Michael


At 10:26 AM 6/20/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>This question stems from a real collecting situation where I lost a
>beautiful crinoid that was weathering out in a friable shale and was
>wondering if there was something I could have done to have stabilized
>the matrix. [snipt most text]
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.  One hates to lose a nice teaching
>specimen when one could have saved it. 
>-- 
>James F. Mahaffy                   e-mail: mahaffy@dordt.edu
>Biology Department                 phone: 712 722-6279
>Dordt College                      FAX 712 722-1198
>Sioux Center, Iowa 51250
>
>



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