High-resolution high-throughput thermal neutron tomographic imaging of fossiliferous cave breccias from Sumatra.

ABSTRACT: We employ high-throughput thermal-neutron tomographic imaging to visualise internal diagnostic features of dense fossiliferous breccia from three Pleistocene cave localities in Sumatra, Indonesia. We demonstrate that these seemingly homogeneous breccias are an excellent source of data to aid in determining taphonomic and depositional histories of complex depositional sites such as tropical caves. X-ray Computed Tomographic (CT) imaging is gaining importance amongst palaeontologists as a non-destructive approach to studying fossil remains. Traditional methods of fossil preparation risk damage to the specimen and may destroy contextual evidence in the surrounding matrix. CT imaging can reveal the internal composition and structure of fossils contained within consolidated sediment/rock matric

SUBMITTER: Smith HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8497489 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature