#fossilfriday Baking soda not just for baking and deodorizing your fridge. It can also be used to clean fossils! Air abrasion is a way to remove matrix from a fossil gently revealing a fossils hidden beauty. Here I am removing matrix from a small fragment of Triceratops skull with baking soda.

#fossilfriday Paleontology is interdisciplinary coupling many sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, engineering) to analyze fossils. X-ray fluorescence is used to get a chemical signature of an object. Here I am zapping a bit of rock from a Triceratops foot