Epofix and vacuum: An easy method to make casts of hard substrates

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Nielsen, Jan Kresten ^a   Maiboe, Jesper ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioerosion; Epoxy; Molluscs; Shell structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013497874     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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