Collecting Fossils with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History

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During jacketing wet burlap is placed in wet plaster and then applied to the separator as tightly as possible.

Snyder Quarry
Petrified Forest Formation
Late Triassic

Depending on the size of the jacket many layers of plaster and burlap may be needed.