Optimum preparation, preservation, and processing techniques for graptolite electron microscopy

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Optimum preparation, preservation, and processing techniques for graptolite electron microscopy

  • Volume / Part: 28 / 4
  • Publication Date: November 1985
  • Page(s): 757 - 766
  • Authored By: Lori W. Dumican and R. Barrie Rickards

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Published guidance on the preparation of ultrathin sections of biological material rarely gives sufficient detail to enable fossil material in general and graptolite material in particular to be prepared to a consistently high standard. The crucial steps relative to pre-microtoming, ultramicrotoming, and post-microtome work, including museum storage, are described together with the 'tricks of the trade' that, taken in total, result in successful micrographs.

Palaeontology - Volume 28 Part 4 Pages 757-766



Palaeontology - Volume 28 Part 4 Pages 757-766

Citations

DUMICAN, L. W., RICKARDS, R. 1985. Optimum preparation, preservation, and processing techniques for graptolite electron microscopy. Palaeontology, 28, 4, 757–766.