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Tracking consolidant penetration into fossil bone using neutron radiography∙

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2014

A.S. Schulp ,
R. Schouten ,
L. Metten ,
A. van de Sande  and
A. Bontenbal
A.S. Schulp*
Affiliation:
Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, De Bosquetplein 6-7, 6211 KJ Maastricht, the Netherlands Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands
R. Schouten
Affiliation:
Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
L. Metten
Affiliation:
Institute for Energy, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, P.O. Box 2, 1755 ZG Petten, the Netherlands
A. van de Sande
Affiliation:
Institute for Energy, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, P.O. Box 2, 1755 ZG Petten, the Netherlands
A. Bontenbal
Affiliation:
NRG, Petten, P.O. Box 25, 1755 ZG Petten, the Netherlands
*
Email: anne.schulp@maastricht.nl
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Abstract

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In the conservation of fragile fossil bone material, impregnation by solvent-borne consolidant is often required. Understanding the mode of penetration of consolidants into fossil bone is of crucial importance. It is governed by a variety of factors; neutron imaging is a powerful tool to monitor and visualise this penetration (non-destructively). The consolidation of a vertebrate fossil from the Maastrichtian of the southeast Netherlands was imaged at the High Flux Reactor facility at Petten, the Netherlands. The analysis shows current conservation practice to result in a sufficiently deep and isotropic penetration.

Keywords

Consolidant penetrationneutron imagingfossil boneconservation
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 92 , Issue 2-3 , September 2013 , pp. 177 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2013

Footnotes

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In: Mulder, E.W.A., Jagt, J.W.M. & Schulp, A.S. (eds): The Sunday's child of Dutch earth sciences - a tribute to Bert Boekschoten on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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