Fossil ammonite prep animation

This is an ammonite from the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, England. The animation shows rock matrix "disappearing" as the fossil is being cleaned using a pneumatic air scribe. This is a higher resolution version of previous post.

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Science & Technology

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• ammonite
• air
• scribe
• Dorset
• fossil
• preparation
• animation
• jurassic
• Lyme
• Regis
• Charmouth
• England
• アンモナイト化石の準備アニメーション

[cybertriobite]

nice job cleaning it

[HumboldtMike]

@cybertriobite Thanks!

[bahdah1234]

we have some fosils like that in neah bay but i never thought of cleaning them up.

[HumboldtMike]

Yeah, I used to go to Clallam Bay east of the Coast Guard station and find lots of fossils -- snails, clams, crabs, marine mammal bones, and occasionally a nautiloid, which is similar to the ammonite in the vid. Gotta go over to Vancouver Island for the ammonites though...

[balsacdajawsofdeath]

can you tell me where you go on vancouver island ? I am interested in looking for some fossils but dont really know where to start.I live in campbell river do you know of any good sites around here? I have heard of some but they are probably picked pretty clean.

[HumboldtMike]

Everything I know is from the book West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island by Rolf Ludvigsen, Graham Beard.  There's probably a copy at your library. Some sites get hit pretty hard, but if you try hard there are still nice fossils that can be legally collected without digging a big hole.

[joemcc1]

thanks m8 :) could you tell me the price of the tools ? would help me loads ty :)

[HumboldtMike]

Thanks. I used a "paleotool" air scribe, which hooks up to an air compressor and works like a tiny jackhammer to knock off small bits of surrounding rock.

[joemcc1]

dude how did u clean that fossil plase tell me :) ps good vid 5 star *****

[vtutorial]

ohhhh...now i get it. Really interesting. Deserves a follow up on wikipedia to learn more. Off i go...lol.