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Post by malcolmt on Feb 6, 2012 16:29:56 GMT -5
I live just outside of Toronto in the Province of Ontario Canada. I have followed Pleecan here to see his wonderful pictures. I am mainly interested in prepping fossils that I find myself , trilobites in particular. I have all the goods prepping toys and truly enjoy a good prep. Within travelling distances we have Silurian, Ordovician and Devonian locations. My favorite hunting spot is Hungry Hollow, Arkona Ontario which is a pretty awesome Devonian biota. It is about three hours drive from where I live.   |
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 6, 2012 18:09:04 GMT -5
Welcome Malcolm! The Admins are real paleo pros and world renowned to their credentials.... this site is superior to TFF for non vertebrate stuff.... they are best in there class. We welcome your posts |
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Post by Joe Botting on Feb 7, 2012 6:35:50 GMT -5
Thanks for joining Malcolm, and welcome - but don't believe the hype!  We know our little bits of the fossil record, but there's far more that we don't... (although the advert's much appreciated, Peter!) It's going to be really interesting having a preparation specialist on here. Please feel free to start threads with general advice, as it will all be welcome - I know that we personally struggle with preparing certain types of material (slightly metamorphosed mudstones are horrible). Do you work mostly with limestones or softer rocks? |
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Post by malcolmt on Feb 7, 2012 20:00:38 GMT -5
Mostly prep material from Ontario and New York State so it tends to be a reasonable to prep limestone. Material from Arkona tends to be softer mudtone / clay and often needs stabalizing before you can do anything. I have prepped a few Morrocan trilos that were in extremely hard matrix. I have prepped some Wenlock material that is ridiculously hard. I currently have a number of Bolivian trilos that I am slowly working on that are what seems to be ironstone concretions, I keep putting them aside as they are frustrating to work on. Neither dolomite or baking soda as an abrasive will touch them and aluminum oxide rips through the trilos which are much softer than the matrix. I do have a number of trilos from Oklahoma that are in a fairly soft and easy to prep mudstone. I enjoy getting out to collect but equally enjoy some solitary prepping time down in the basement. Do all my prepping under a pair of Olympus zoom scopes, have 6 different airscribes at last count and 4 different types of air abrasion. Getting back into the hobby now that the children are all grown up and we don't spend all our time at hockey arenas. Originally I am from Farnsworth which is near Bolton just outside of Manchester.
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Post by pleecan (Peter Lee) on Feb 10, 2012 9:01:06 GMT -5
Malcolm: You are the prep man... probably could learn lots from you.... Probably start prepping 15 yrs from now when I retire.... PL |
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We know our little bits of the fossil record, but there's far more that we don't... (although the advert's much appreciated, Peter!)