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Week Two: Fossilization and Collection of Dinosaurs

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History of Museum's Collections		Microraptor
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Fossil Preparation		Research in the Gobi Desert
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Photo Gallery: Paleontologist's Toolkit

	Field notebooks or journals Making observations, drawing, and recording...		Satellite Images such as this one of the Gobi Desert...

	Geologic Maps Data collected over many years of surveying...		Photography is used in documenting specimens at every stage...

	Global Positioning Systems hardware and software is so advanced that...		Human Muscle Low-tech, old-fashioned tools like...

	Consolidants are 'hardeners' or glues that prevent fragile fossils...		Screens are sometimes used to find smaller fossils that...

	Brushes Scientists use brushes to clear debris and...		Rockhammer The rockhammer is the essential tool of...

	Rockhammers are used to trench around this...		Pocketknife Loose rock, like the sandy matrix around this...

	Jacketing fossil specimens in the field protects them...		Crates Mineralized bone and plaster are heavy...

	Saw This is the same type of saw an orthopedist uses...		Dental Tools like the pick seen here, are used to...

	Microscopes are important in the preparation of fossils...		CAT Scan is a new tool that allows scientists to...