I was gone for a while on Winter Break and only went to the lab for one day this week, but that's ok because I got to go for 2 1/4 hours. I started out working on picking off the tiny dirt layer from the bones under the microscope, but I quickly realized the jacket it too tall to get the microscope into and close enough to the bones. Next time I go I'll talk to David about cutting off some of the excess jacket so that I can get the microscope in the right place. Instead of trying to continue working with the microscope I decided to work of some of the soil samples from around Ellie. I found many small pieces of bone and shark cartilage. I also found that I had a much easier time tell fossils from dirt, plaster, and rocks. I'm sure that this is because I've been working with fossils for a while, and the last time I worked on soil samples was when I first started at my internship. It's good to go back to things I was doing before and see how much I've improved.
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