Journal of Micropalaeontology
Journal of Micropalaeontology
JM
Articles | Volume 39, issue 2
Articles | Volume 39, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-39-169-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-39-169-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 39, issue 2
Research article
 | 
09 Oct 2020
Research article |  | 09 Oct 2020

Liberating microfossils from indurated carbonates: comparison of three disaggregation methods

Charlotte Beasley, Daniel B. Parvaz, Laura Cotton, and Kate Littler

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We compared three methods of breaking apart well-cemented carbonate rocks in order to obtain liberated fossiliferous material. The first two methods are traditional and the third is novel to this field. The novel technique (fragmentation using electric pulses, SELFRAG) proved to be the most efficient and effective at liberating microfossil material from surrounding rock. We suggest best practice for using this technique and further materials in which it could prove successful in future.
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