Walking down the beach one afternoon on Diana Island in the Deer Group I stumbled across the most incredible Moon Snail I’d ever seen. It’s a Fibonacci sequence of learning and growing and evolving that all physical and spiritual life is based on. As we grow old we realize that life isn’t laid out in a straight line but in an ever-expanding spiral. Just as mother earth feels one with the moon, planets, and stars in this vast universe. We feel a connection to this land no matter who we are and what background we have. The Indigenous Huu-ay-aht, call this unceded territory home, and burial sites in caves on the Broken Islands remind us of this rich and thriving culture. Teaming with wildlife, you’ll share the waters with Orcas, Grey Whales and Humpbacks in summer months and be guided by eagles and ravens overhead. These islands build a bridge between the end of the road towns of Bamfield and Ucluelet, and offer some the best sea kayaking on Vancouver Island. ![]() Scattered between two headlands in the protected waters of Barkley Sound, lie two Island chains called the Broken Group and the Deer Group. ![]() The method we are presenting is relatively easy to use, can be applied for most paintings and have a low impact on binders for their determination.Durable and waterproof hand made vinyl art magnets with a matte finish. As these samples are unique and we should make the most of them, we observe if gas chromatography-mass spectrometer analysis could be done on the disaggregated sample in order to determine the binders after the nannofossils retrieval. In this work, we aimed to develop a disaggregation method that will extract the most nannofossils from the preparatory layer with the least destruction. The resulting disaggregation takes long and is not efficient in terms of quantitative results or time. Actually, the method is to plunge the micro-samples into the water and heat it if the water alone does not work. In order to extract the calcareous nannofossils assemblage from these layers, we need to disaggregate it. Preparatory layers of the paintings are often made with chalk which is composed of microfossils. Several studies already mentioned it for ceramic but less for paintings. The method we are presenting is easy to apply, has a high disaggregation rate for most paintings, and a low impact on binders fatty acids for their determination.Ĭalcareous nannofossils for provenance analysis is a new-old topic for cultural heritage. We studied the possibility of binder determination by gas chromatography-mass spectrometer after the nannofossils assemblage extraction on the residual liquid from the disaggregation. ![]() As these samples are valuable and unique, we decided that a combination of analyses on the disaggregated micro-sample should be tried to extract the most information from it. In this work, we aimed to develop a disaggregation method that increases the number of determinable nannofossils extracted from a painting micro-sample. The disaggregation process takes a long time and is not efficient in terms of quantitative results. The method is to plunge the micro-samples into water and heat it if water alone does not work. ![]() To extract a calcareous nannofossils assemblage from a painting layer, we need to disaggregate it. Preparatory layers of the paintings are often made with chalk, which is composed of microfossils. Several studies have already mentioned it for ceramic, but less for paintings. The use of calcareous nannofossils for provenance analysis is a new-old topic for cultural heritage.
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