Glossary
Bulletin: A collection of papers from various authors on a single subject, or in-depth studies that are too long to be journal articles.
Land Status Map: A map that outlines who controls a particular piece of land.
Geologic Map: A map that shows paleontologists where rocks of certain ages are exposed.
Topographic Map: \toe-po-graf-ik\ A map that provides a picture of what the actual land looks like and what features can be found in a certain spot.
Prospecting: Walking a specific age of rock looking for fossils.
Microsites: A kind of site found by prospecting that yields fossils that are typically 2cm or less and need to be put under a microscope to be examined.
Screenwashing: The process used to recover microfossils from microsites. It consists of running bags of fossil rich debris through various sizes of screen with water and then picking the fossils out under a microscope.
Single Excavation Sites: A single excavation with a limited amount of bone, usually a single bone or associated group of fossils.
Quarrying: A type of excavation where the amount of bone at a site is extensive and requires multiple plaster jackets in order to remove it.
Jacketing: The process of creating a plaster covering to protect a fossil during transport to a museum.
Trenching: Digging a trench around the area of a fossil to be jacketed.
Pedestalling: \ped-eh-stall-ing\ Thinning the base of the fossil to be jacketed in order to flip and remove the fossil.
Burnishing: \burn-ish-ing\ Applying and smoothing additional layers of wet plaster to prevent sharp edges on the jacket.
Flipping: Turning the jacket over and removing it from the ground in order to be transported.
