Re: Ghosts of New Papers Past

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> > Gamma rays?
> >
> > What next, death rays? Or machine guns? What does one need that kind of 
> > power for?
>
> Remember this?
>
> Jones, R. and Chure, D.J. 1998. The recapitation of a Late Jurassic 
> theropods dinosaur: a successful application of radiological surveying for 
> locating subsurface fossilized bone. Gaia, 15: 103-110.
>
> Made use of a 'modified, shielded gamma ray scintillator' to find a hot
> (uranium salts) skull that belonged to a previously collected theropod
> skeleton.

Oh, so the fossils do the gamma-ray emitting, not the Mad Scientists(TM). 
Makes a lot of sense. :-) Shouldn't have been mentioned in the same breath 
as LIDAR.