Conservation of an Eocene petrified forest at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: Investigation of strategies and techniques for stabilizing in situ fossil stumps

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 435, Issue , 2008, Pages 141-157

  Young, Jennifer L ^a   Meyer, Herbert W ^b   Mustoe, George E ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesives; Conservation; Consolidants; Florissant; Petrified wood

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; CONSERVATION; FREEZING; THAWING; WEATHERING; WOOD;

CONSOLIDANTS; FLORISSANT; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PETRIFIED WOOD; POLYVINYL BUTYRAL; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHERING RATES;

ADHESIVES;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEGRADATION; EMULSION; FOREST; FOSSIL; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; PRESERVATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SILICATE MINERAL; TEMPERATURE; TESTING METHOD; WOOD;

EID: 75249093110     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2435(10)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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