Experiments in scanning fossils!
These experiments were HIGHLY successful. All the images here were done with a $30 flatbed scanner, nothing else! With a little practice one can easily spend a whole day exploring one rock slab in minute detail! The trick was to select small areas in the scanning software and then use the highest resolution. By keeping the image small it kept the memory from overloading.
Ammonite cluster from Nevada
This is a slab of Ordovician sea bottom from Ontario.
Close up of the Ontario slab.
Close up of the Ontario slab.
Close up of the Ontario slab.
Close up of the Ontario slab.
Fusulinid limestone from Pakistan. Note the large size of these fusilinids.
Close up of a transverse section of a fusulinid in limestone from Pakistan. Note the internal structure.
More fusilinid limestone from Pakistan showing fusulinids in every orientation.
More limestone from Pakistan here showing the crossection of a gastropod. Note the scale. The smallest objects visible in the original image were less than 0.1mm!
More gastropods limestone from Pakistan.
More limestone from Pakistan containing gastropods, ostracods and a brachiopod. Note the scale.
Trilobite from China.