Making Laqcuer peels!
November 13th, 2017
Thanks to an excellent explanation from Janrik van den Berg, Wietse van de Lageweg, and I were able to make some nice laqcuer peels from the cores we brought back from the Walsoorden Fieldwork. It was a bit sticky and potentially unhealthy, but the result is very nice if I may say so myself.
Before we started, I was looking forward to learning this new skill, but I was a bit sceptical about the additional value next to our high-resolution photographs. However, now that I have seen the results, I believe many more people should use this technique. The sediment peels show many features we had not observed earlier: the angle of the layers in the sand became visible, the peel revealed a burrow of a worm, and we now observe much more detail in the layering.
