Re: Paleontology microscopy

Quite all cited materials are amenable to metallographic polished sections
after epoxy embedding. Fe-concretions and bone (femurs and teeth) are
ideal cases. Any ore geology lab should be helpful. J.J.


In article <6kkot11iokqj06t2lfd3vddcngmgi75vh4@xxxxxxx>, Gary G
<see.signature@bottom> wrote:

> I have specimens of 75 million year old dinosaur parts and other
> creatures' part for LM and SEM analysis. For example, crockodile
> scutes, iron concretions, dinosaur tendons, femurs, triceratops teeth,
> and many more.
>
> One way to deal with these is to thin section them and do STEM.
> Another way is to fracture them and do SEM/EDS. Plus, the iron
> concretions may be candidates for polishing and EBSD analysis.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
> Microtechnics, Inc.
> Granite Bay, CA 95746
> 916.791.8191
> gary@microtechnics dot com
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