Fossil preparation includes tasks such as excavating, revealing, conserving, and replicating ancient remains and traces of organisms.
Notes on verification
Near-verbatim match to Wikipedia's definition of fossil preparation, corroborated by AMNH's parallel breakdown of the process into excavating, revealing, conserving, and studying stages; replication (casting/molding) is well-documented as a standard technique elsewhere.
Sources
- Fossil preparation (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-preparation (amnh.org)
- https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-preparation/revealing (amnh.org)
- https://www.amnh.org/research/paleontology/collections/fossil-preparation/studying/conserving (amnh.org)
- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/fossil-preparation.html (nhm.ac.uk)