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Mountains once home to sea creatures
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue10229
- Physical Description
- p.8
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Notes
- In Mountain Guide, summer 1987
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Take a sedimental journey into Alberta's past
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue10576
- Physical Description
- p.3
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Notes
- In Kananaskis Country Explorer, summer 1988
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Larousse encyclopedia of the earth
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5359
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1961
- Publisher
- New York : Prometheus
- Edition
- English ed
- Call Number
- 03.1 L32
- Responsibility
- Leon Bertin
- foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs
- introduction by Carroll Lane Fenton
- Edition
- English ed
- Publisher
- New York : Prometheus
- Published Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 419p. : ill
- Notes
- Translated . . . from La terre notre planete, first published in France
- Accession Number
- 1000
- Call Number
- 03.1 L32
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Trilobite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.01.0011%20a%2cb
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.01.0011 a,b
- Description
- Two pieces of slate containing trilobite (marine) fossils: a) One piece of slate has the fossil of single a trilobite, in the negative, which has been oiled to clarify the image. A hole has been cut in the top for hanging. b) A piece of slate containing two trilobites, postive impression, with a…
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- Title
- Trilobite Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- a) 4; b) 2 x a) 11.5; b x a) 17; b) cm
- Description
- Two pieces of slate containing trilobite (marine) fossils: a) One piece of slate has the fossil of single a trilobite, in the negative, which has been oiled to clarify the image. A hole has been cut in the top for hanging. b) A piece of slate containing two trilobites, postive impression, with a third partially revealed. A hole for hanging has been drilled through the rock.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 112.01.0011 a,b
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Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1002
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1002
- Description
- One half of an ammonite.
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- Title
- Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 5.0 cm
- Description
- One half of an ammonite.
- Credit
- Gift of Marshall Diverty, Medford, USA, 1969
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1002
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Petrified Wood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1012
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
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- Title
- Petrified Wood
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.
- Subject
- pre history
- paleontology
- botany
- Credit
- Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1012
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Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1017%20a%2cb
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral; paleontology
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1017 a,b
- Description
- (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.
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- Title
- Trilobite, Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral; paleontology
- Description
- (a) trilobite is quite nice, it is on a rock slab 12.4 x 10.8 cm, the trilobite measuring 9.3x4.7 cm, part of the tail is missing.(b) ammonite (9.5x8.7 cm) is actually a shape of an ammonite depressed in a large circular slab of rock measuring 27.0 dia and 2.2 thick.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1017 a,b
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Ammonite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1016
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
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- Title
- Ammonite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Dimensions
- 4.5 cm
- Description
- An ammonite that is in quite good shape except that the tail is missing. There is no parts of the rock attached to it.
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1016
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Trilobite Fossil
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact112.03.1003%20a-s
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1003 a-s
- Description
- 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of li…
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- Title
- Trilobite Fossil
- Date
- prior to 1800
- Material
- mineral
- Description
- 19 pieces of slate and slabs of limestone containing imprints of trilobites, some whole, halves or just parts; many pieces are merely fragments of trilobites:(a) a piece of limestone 2.3cm high x 11.0x6.7cm wide, with a clear, whole, imprint of a small trilobite (3.0x2.0 cm wide); (b) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 17.3x7.5cm wide, with a clear, whole imprint of a small trilobite (5.7x3.0 cm wide).(c) a piece of slate 1.5 cm high x 9.7x8.0cm wide, almost whole imprints of two trilobites one (5.0x3.0 cm wide ) and the smaller one 2.0x 1.5 cm wide;(d) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with an almost whole, but not very clear imprint, of a trilobite, missing head 10.5x5.5cm wide;(e) a piece of limestone 2.50 cm x 11.0 high x14.5 cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.9x3.8cm wide);(f) a piece of limestone 2.5cm high x 7.5x9.3 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(g) a piece of limestone 1.3cm high x 8.7x9.0 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a small trilobite (3.2x2.5 cm wide);(h) a piece of slate 2.4cm high x 7.5x8.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (3.2x3.0 cm wide);(i) a piece of slate 1.80cm high x 9.0x11.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (6.4x3.7 cm wide);(j) a piece of slate 1.20 cm high x 16.0x9.0cm wide with a partial imprint of a trilobite, missing head, 10.5x5.5cm wide. There is also a partial imprint on the back;(k) a piece of slate 2.2 cm high x 7.3x18.0cm wide with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite, 10.0x5.3cm wide. There is also two partial imprints on the back;(l) a piece of slate 1.2 cm high x 5.0x11.2 cm wide, with about one third of an imprint of a trilobite (3.2x4.5 cm wide);(m) a piece of slate .08cm high x10.3.x7.0 cm wide, with an almost whole imprint of a trilobite (3.2x.9.5x7.2 cm wide);(n) a small (0.80cm high) piece of slate 5.5x7.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (4.0x5.8 cm wide);(o) a very small (0.80cm) high piece of slate 5.3x2.8 cm wide, with a partial, but very clear, imprint of a trilobite (4.5x2.7 cm wide);(p) a piece of slate 9.2x8.5 cm wide, with a few very small (almost indiscernible) traces of trilobite;(q) a piece of slate 9.5x12.8 cm wide, with a long, but very narrow, trace of the side of a trilobite;(r) a piece of slate that doesn’t seem to have anything distinguishable although it is part of a fossil;(s) a small (0.70cm high) piece of slate 3.7x3.5 cm wide, with a partial imprint of a trilobite (1.9x3.5 cm wide).
- Subject
- prehistory
- paleontology
- hobbies
- Art Krowchuk
- Credit
- Gift of Art Krowchuk, Canmore, 1970
- Catalogue Number
- 112.03.1003 a-s
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