https://www.patreon.com/YDAW -- Paleontologists learned pretty quick that if you try to move giant, heavy, yet fragile specimens across many miles, you're going to have a bad time. It also turns out it was a bit of a process to figure out the best way to move a fossil after it was out of the ground. So: the history of fossil jacketing!
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Contents:
00:20 Intro
02:05 The History of Fossil Jacketing
04:33 The First Great American Dinosaur Rush
18:48 Institutions and Practices (The Second Dinosaur Rush)
24:56 Materials and Methods (Interwar Years)
28:25 Why Plaster of Paris?
31:02 Visiting a Dig Site
31:50 Foil Packs
37:08 Jacketing Small-ish Specimens with JJs
51:47 Jacketing a Large Specimen
57:56 Conclusion
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Historical Photos in this video were sourced in part from The Commons on Flickr:
The Field Museum Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/
Smithsonian Institution: https://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/
SMU Libraries Digital Collections: https://www.flickr.com/photos/field_museum_library/
Other sources include:
The National Park Service Gallery: https://npgallery.nps.gov/
The Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
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Sources & Links:
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