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Fossil Replication Techniques

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A Manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology

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Replication is an important tool to the palaeontologist, enabling high quality positive and negative impressions to be obtained (Linsley 1965). The accurate replication of specimens requires a number of specialized moulding and casting procedures, with the replicates complexity and working conditions influencing the technique’s degree of sophistication. Field applications require simplified and rapid procedures, while in controlled laboratory environments more elaborate techniques are employed. Many of the procedures and techniques commonly used by geotechnologists have their origins in artistic modelling — in particular wax and clay sculpting, metal and resin casting.

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Green, O.R. (2001). Fossil Replication Techniques. In: A Manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0581-3_36

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