Image: Plastering Centrosaurus fossil slab
Plastering a Centrosaurus apertus fossil slab in Canada, as part of the Australian Museum's excavations in The Dinosaur Provincial Park in the early 2000s.
- Photographer:
- Kyle McManus
- Rights:
- © Kyle McManus
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Wet tissue paper is laid over the slab, to prevent the plaster sticking, and then moist hessian strips are dragged through wet plaster and placed on the specimen.
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Tags excavating, preparing, fossils, plastering, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada,