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A correlated history of the Universe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26346
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Terra Inc.
- Edition
- 4th
- Call Number
- 03 J25a Pam
- Responsibility
- created by Janke, Paul R.
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Pan Terra Inc.
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- folded map 9"x4"
- Abstract
- "A Correlated History of EARTH" now in 4th edition, includes plate tectonic maps, geostratigraphy, surface geology, ice ages, magnetic reversals, major volcanic flood basalts, orogenies, impact craters, classic sites, the fossil record, mass extinctions, genetic timescale..." -- "A Correlated History of Matter" extends the detailed timeline back to the big bang, includes fundamental particles and forces, periodic table of elements, table of earth minerals, table of earth rocks, meteorites, impact-generated rocks, breccias, shattercones, tektites, the K/T boundary clay, many color photos..." - author's website
- Contents
- A correlated history of Earth -- A correlated history of matter
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 J25a Pam
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- Archives Library
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Light from ancient campfires : archaeological evidence for Native lifeways on the northern plains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13927
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Peck, Trevor R.
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 P33l
- Author
- Peck, Trevor R.
- Responsibility
- Trevor R. Peck
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Notes
- Includes information on house pits / pit houses / house pits / semi-subterranean house sites
- ISBN
- 9781897425961
- Accession Number
- 60,500 11-11-29
- Call Number
- 07.2 P33l
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- Archives Library
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Guide to common vertebrate fossils from the Cretaceous of Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26471
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Alberta Palaeontological Society
- Call Number
- 03 J64g
- Responsibility
- Illustrations Johnson, Hope and edited by Allen, Howard
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada : Alberta Palaeontological Society
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- vii, 234 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 28 cm.
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Dinosaurs
- Alberta
- Fossils
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9780981110103
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 03 J64g
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A Burgess Shale primer : history, geology and research highlights. Field trip companion volume, ICCE 2009
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14589
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Deep Alberta : fossil facts and dinosaur digs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25673
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
- Author
- Acorn, John
- Publisher
- Drumheller, Alta. : Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Dinosaurs
- Fossils
- Contents
- Geology of Alberta map -- Albanerpetontids, as we say -- Ammonites and ammolites -- Albertosaurus, Alberta's dinosaur -- Amber, fossilized tree sap -- Amia, the bowfin -- Atrociraptor, the new raptor -- Basilemys, a very large turtle -- Bison, as opposed to buffalo -- The Blindman River -- Belonostomus, a pointy-headed fish -- Barnum Brown, fossil hunter -- Burbank, Alberta -- Calgary and the things that lay beneath it -- Extinct camels -- The Canadian shield -- Centrosaurus, a herding horned dinosaur -- Champsosaurus, a kind of non-crocodile -- Chasmosaurus, a short-horned dinosaur -- North American cheetahs -- The Bow Valley at Cochrane -- Cretaceous lizards -- Alberta's crocodilians -- Dawn redwood trees -- Devil's Coulee and its dinosaur nests -- Didelphodon, a sort of primitive possum -- Dinosaur Provincial Park -- Dromaeosaurus, a snappy little raptor -- The Drumheller Badlands -- Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park -- Dunkleosteus, a very scary fish -- Edmonton, a modest sort of dinosaur graveyard -- Edmontosaurus, Edmonton's duck-billed dinosaur -- Edmontonia, Edmonton's other dinosaur -- Feathered dinosaurs -- Fossil frogs -- Gar, the fish -- Horn corals -- How do you know where to dig? -- Hypacrosaurus, less than the ultimate dinosaur -- The Kleskun Hills -- Lambeosaurus, Lambe's dinosaur -- Leptoceratops, a hornless horned dinosaur -- Alberta's lions -- Lundbreck Falls and the black beauty -- Mammoths and mastodons -- The Milk River -- Mosasaurs, the giant marine lizards -- Multituberculates, common but extinct mammals -- Myledaphus, a guitar fish -- New fossil names -- The oil sands -- Ornithomimids, the bird mimics -- Pachyrhinosaurus, the thick-nosed dinosaur -- Palaeontology in Alberta -- Pantodonts, giant Palaeocene mammals -- Parasaurolophus, a long-headed duck-bill -- Parksosaurus, Park's dinosaur -- The world's oldest pike -- Plants of the ornithomimid quarry -- Plesiadapis, a weird early primate -- Plesiosaurs, the sea serpents of the Mesozoic -- "Primitive" plants -- Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles -- Fossil salamanders -- Sandy Point -- Saurornitholestes, a raptor -- Short-faced bear -- Since the Ice Age -- Snakes of the dinosaur times -- Soft-shelled turtles -- Stegoceras -- The Sternberg family -- Sedimentology, the science of sediments -- Sturgeon, a living fossil fish -- Styracosaurus, a classic Alberta dinosaur -- Trace fossils -- Troodon, the "smart" dinosaur -- Triceratops, the three-horned face -- Tyrannosaurus or "T. rex"-- The venomous mammal.
- Notes
- Based on the radio series "Deep Alberta", broadcast on CKUA Radio and sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 9780888644817
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 A7d
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Reading the rocks : a biography of ancient Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12861
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Calgary : Red Deer Press
- Call Number
- 03.1 Al1rtm
- Responsibility
- Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Monique Keiran
- Publisher
- Calgary : Red Deer Press
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 120 p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Walcott, Charles Doolittle
- Notes
- Previous edition title: The land before us: the making of ancient Alberta
- Includes reference to the Stephen Formation on Castle Mountain, the Burgess Shale
- ISBN
- 0-88995-283-4
- Accession Number
- 38000
- Call Number
- 03.1 Al1rtm
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Smithsonian Institutional Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12854
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 W14yo v.2
- Author
- Yochelson, Ellis L
- Publisher
- Kent (Ohio) : Kent State University Press
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- xvi, 589 p. : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Burgess Shale
- Paleontology
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index. 1st volume of biography titled "Charles Doolittle Wacott, paleontologist"
- ISBN
- 0-87338-680-9
- Accession Number
- 38000
- Call Number
- 03.2 W14yo v.2
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A man for all seasons
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14693
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Call Number
- 08 V46m Pam
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Responsibility
- reviewed by Henry J. Vaux Jr.
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- 3 pages
- Notes
- A review of the book entitled A man for all seasons : Smithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott by Ellis L. Yochelson 2001 The Kent University Press
- The review's book is the second biographical volume of the final 20 years of the life of Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Henry Vaux Jr.'s great aunt was the third wife of Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Call Number
- 08 V46m Pam
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A traveller's guide to geological wonders in Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11174
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Mussieux, Ron
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Copublished by: Federation of Alberta Naturalists and Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- Call Number
- 03.1 Al1mu
- Author
- Mussieux, Ron
- Responsibility
- Ron Mussieux and Marilyn Nelson
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Provincial Museum of Alberta
- Copublished by: Federation of Alberta Naturalists and Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 253 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Paleontology
- ISBN
- 0-7785-0123-X
- Accession Number
- 1-19-1999 31,500
- Call Number
- 03.1 Al1mu
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The crucible of creation : the Burgess Shale and the rise of animals
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Morris, Simon Conway
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91m
- Author
- Morris, Simon Conway
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 242 p. : ill
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Notes
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- ISBN
- 0-19-8502567
- Accession Number
- 6-25-98 30,500
- Call Number
- 03.2 B91m
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