Teasing fossils out of shales with cameras and computers

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Bengtson, Stefan ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Photography; Polarized light; Shale fossils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003248722     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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