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How to preserve "soft" fossil wood?


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I have been finding fossil wood from cretaceous mud deposits that is still soft.  However, when it dries it usually crumbles to bits.  Sometimes when it breaks open it is black and glassy-looking inside.  Some has pyrite crystals growing on it.  What would be a good way to preserve it?  Keep it in a jar of water?  Paraloid?  ????

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Take a page or two from the marine archaeologists: LINK

  • I found this Informative 3

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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Everyone must read the article, it has all of the answers.  Thanks so much.

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