Princeton Researchers Gather Fossil Specimens for Ultra-high-resolution Grinding and Imaging (IMAGE)

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Princeton Researchers Gather Fossil Specimens for Ultra-high-resolution Grinding and Imaging

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With an industrial grinder, a super-high-resolution camera usually used for wedding photography, and high-speed neural networks, Princeton geoscientists Adam Maloof and Akshay Mehra can deconstruct rock samples and create three-dimensional digital versions, which they have used to analyze specimens of Cloudina fossils gathered by Mehra (left) and undergraduates Will Van Cleve and Christian Gray (right) of the Class of 2017 from the Byng Formation, a fossil reef formation in a glacier-carved valley on Salient Mountain in the Canadian Rockies.

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Courtesy of Adam Maloof and Akshay Mehra, Princeton University Department of Geosciences

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