topic:"Burgess Shale" found 27 records - Research Collections

Animals of the Burgess Shale : Yoho National Park, British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1988

Author: Environment Canada

Publisher: Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service

Call Number: 04 E1a Pam

Author: Environment Canada

Publisher: Environment Canada and Canadian Parks Service

Published Date: 1988

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Yoho National Park; Fossils

Abstract: Pertains to a pamphlet detailing the animal species that have been discovered in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Located in Yoho National Park, the Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit that was originally founded by Charles Walcott. The pamphlet tells of Walcott’s history and the early beginnings following his findings, as well as the species that inhabited the area millions of years prior.

Notes: Front reads: Exquisitely detailed fossils found in layer of shale in Yoho National Park open a window on life on Earth 530 millions years ago

Accession Number: 2017.8683

Call Number: 04 E1a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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The Burgess animal book for children

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1924

Author: Burgess, Thornton W.

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company

Call Number: 03.2 B91t

Author: Burgess, Thornton W.

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company

Published Date: 1924

Physical Description: xvii, 363 pages color frontispiece, plates (some color) 20 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Animals; Juvenile literature; Illustrations

Abstract: This book, originally published in 1920, is a call to learn more about the animals with which we share our world, and how precious they are, through stories.

Contents: Preface -- Jenny Wren gives Peter Rabbit an idea -- Peter and Jumper go to school -- More of Peter's long-legged cousins -- Chatterer and Happy Jack join -- The squirrels of the trees -- Striped chipmunk and his cousins -- Johnny Chuck joins the class -- Whistler and Yap Yap -- Two queer little haymakers -- Prickly Porky and Grubby Gopher -- A fellow with a thousand spears -- A lumberman and engineer -- A worker and a robber -- A trader and a handsome fellow -- Two unlike little cousins -- Danny's northern cousins and Nimbleheels -- Three little redcoats and some others -- Mice with pockets, and others -- Teeny Weeny and his cousin -- Four busy little miners -- Flitter the bat and his family -- An independent family -- Digger and his cousin Glutton -- Shadow and his family -- Two famous swimmers -- Spite the martin and Pekan the fisher -- Reedy Fox joins the school -- Old Man Coyote and Howler the Wolf -- Yowler and his cousin Tuffy -- Some big and little cat cousins -- Bobby Coon arrives -- Buster Bear nearly breaks up school -- Buster Bear's big cousins -- Unc' Billy and Old Mrs. Possum -- Lightfoot, Blacktail, and Forkhorn -- Bugler, Flathorns and Wanderhoof -- Thunderfoot, Fleetfoot and Longcoat -- Two wonderful mountain climbers -- Piggy and Hardshell -- The mammals of the sea -- Index.

Notes: Delicate handwritten note in front cover, tied for protection.

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 03.2 B91t

Collection: Archives Library

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A Burgess Shale primer : history, geology and research highlights. Field trip companion volume, ICCE 2009

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2009

Author: International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (2009 : Banff, Alta.)

Publisher: Toronto : Burgess Shale Consortium

Call Number: 03.2 In8b Pam

Author: International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion (2009 : Banff, Alta.)

Responsibility: edited by Jean-Bernard Cohen and Dave Rudkin

Publisher: Toronto : Burgess Shale Consortium

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 108 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Geology; Paleontology

Notes: Includes bibliographical references; A brief history of field research on the Burgess Shale / Desmond Collins. -- Geology and stratigraphy of the Burgess Shale Formation on Mount Stephen and Fossil Ridge / Terrence P. Fletcher and Desmond Collins. -- Sedimentation of the phyllopod bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation / Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz. -- Fossil preservation in the Burgess Shale / Nicholas J. Butterfield. -- The greater phyllopod bed community, historical variatioins and quantitative approaches / Jean-Bernard Caron. -- The Mount Stephen trilobite beds / Dave Rudkin.

ISBN: 9780981288505

Accession Number: 2015.8517

Call Number: 03.2 In8b Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Charles Doolittle Walcott, 1850-1927 : a biographical memoir

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1967

Author: Yochelson, Ellis L

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Call Number: 03.1 W14y Pam

Author: Yochelson, Ellis L

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published Date: 1967

Physical Description: p.471-540 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Burgess Shale; Paleontology; Yoho National Park

Notes: From Biographical Memoirs, vol.XXXIX; Bibliography

Accession Number: 765

Call Number: 03.1 W14y Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Charles Doolittle Walcott, paleontologist

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1998

Author: Yochelson, Ellis L

Publisher: Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press

Call Number: 03.2 W14yo v.1

Author: Yochelson, Ellis L

Publisher: Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press

Published Date: 1998

Physical Description: xvi, 510, [24] p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Biography; Burgess Shale; Paleontology

Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index. 2nd volume of biography titled "Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott"

ISBN: 0-87338-599-3

Accession Number: 4-14-999 31,500

Call Number: 03.2 W14yo v.1

Collection: Archives Library

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Climate change : sorting it out [and other articles]

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Call Number: P

Physical Description: p.4-9

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation

Notes: In Marrella, no.7, summer 1998

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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The emergence of animals : the Cambrian breakthrough

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1990

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Call Number: 03 M22t

Author: McMenamin, Mark A.S. and Schulte McMenamin, Dianna L.

Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Fossils; Burgess Shale; Paleontology; Paleoecology Rodinia

Contents: Cambrian explosion -- Aliens here on earth? -- Mudeaters -- Small shelly fossils -- Golden spike -- Rifting of Rodinia -- Garden of Ediacara -- Ecological feedback and intelligence -- Precambrian oxygen -- Ecological chaos and innovation.