On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:41:54 +0000, you wrote: >Playing Devil's advocate for a moment, is there a chance the author is >fudging the findings? Could the proposed results be replicated by, say, > firing a shotgun shell full of coarse iron filings at a tusk, like using > paper >from the appropriate era to forge a historical document?
I'm wondering if there might have been some sort of attempt to clean the fossils, such as listed under "MECHANICAL PREPARATION" here http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/resources/prep.htm that could have damaged the fossils and left behind bits of iron. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
