Sentences with phrase «plaster jacket»

Furthermore, by covering the 150 - million - year - old hindquarters of that giant sauropod in a sturdy plaster jacket — a method that enabled him to safely ship and store the beast's delicate remains — he helped establish a critical collecting technique that is still used by paleontologists around the world.

However, with a protective plaster jacket built around it, the bone was too heavy for a helicopter to retrieve it from the remote site and it had to be broken in half.

With no other way to transport it, scientists reluctantly split the plaster jacket and broke the T. rex's 3.5 - foot - long femur.

On the final day, the field team, along with excited members of the National Park Service and other spectators, nervously watched as the helicopter gently lifted the plaster jackets — some weighing a half of a ton or more — from the excavation site.

Another priority is fossil preparation, which has received minimal funding; many dinosaur fossils remain in the plaster jackets used to ship them from the field.

Not exact matches

Excavation of Shingopana songwensis showing ribs and other bones being prepared for plaster - jacketing.

The fossils were quickly excavated, jacketed in plaster, and shipped to a nearby lab for ongoing cleaning and analysis so that construction could continue.

Field jacketing involves making a cast out of plaster and burlap (though in our case, we use toilet paper) around the fossil.

The only thing that should stop you from offering to plaster your great - aunt's living room in this floral pattern is that crop top, shorts and jacket are Stella McCartney, so it would cost you over $ 10,000 to cover just one wall.

Matias Faldbakken, Screen Jacket (Wildly Overcommit), 2017, Bomber jacket, synthetic plaster, rebar, zip ties, steel wire, newsprint, inkjet print, Lascaucx collage glue, Lascaux Transparentlack - 2 UV, 75 x 75 x 20 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 7 7/Jacket (Wildly Overcommit), 2017, Bomber jacket, synthetic plaster, rebar, zip ties, steel wire, newsprint, inkjet print, Lascaucx collage glue, Lascaux Transparentlack - 2 UV, 75 x 75 x 20 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 7 7/jacket, synthetic plaster, rebar, zip ties, steel wire, newsprint, inkjet print, Lascaucx collage glue, Lascaux Transparentlack - 2 UV, 75 x 75 x 20 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)

Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large - scale photographs of people she transforms into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.

John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Man with Tie and Jacket, 1985, Plaster cast, 19.5 x 23.5 x 8 inches.