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Cleaning Foraminifera for Laser Ablation

How to clean a foram... let me count thy ways...

There is a LOT of literature available for how best to clean foraminifera for various applications and analyses. We wrote a 'cheat sheet' set of general instructions we use for prepping forams for analysis. We are sharing them here in case anyone finds them useful.

This is a word document... Feel free to download and edit them for your own use:


  • General cleaning guidelines for prepping forams for individual foram analysis
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