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Bones In Concretion 2


Doctor Mud

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Hi folks,

Here's a piece I've been working on for a while.

Got this a few years back and tried prepping the bones with my old electric engraver. The rock wouldn't flake off. I then proceeded to acid prep. Weak, buffered acetic acid.

I got this far and stopped as I couldn't see anything that looked diagnostic, and the acid cycles are very time consuming. Soak for a weak, gently brush off dissolved matrix, neautralize acid, protect exposed bone with consolidant.

Does anything look familiar to anyone?

I almost thought that the one view is reminiscent of the rostrum of a small baleen whale......

I was thinking of trying again now I have air-scribes, but don't want to invest ages on a jumble of non-diagnostic post-cranial elements.

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The block is 30 cm long. Images around the top view are orientated to show the view from the respective angles.

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Close up of the long flat bone. This continues back into the block. Thought this might be rostral material?

Thanks for looking.

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