topic:"geology" found 15 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

The alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries : a pedestrian's noteson their physical features, scenery, and natural history

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

Published Date: 1896

Author: Bonney, T. G.

Publisher: Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.

Edition: 1st edition

Call Number: 02.2 B64a

Author: Bonney, T. G.

Responsibility: Illustrations by E. Whymper

Edition: 1st edition

Publisher: Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co.

Published Date: 1896

Physical Description: 351 pages ; 15 ill. ; 5 plates

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

Subjects: Switzerland; Geology; Italy; Glaciers; Animals; Avalanches; Botany; Folklore

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 02.2 B64a

Collection: Archives Library

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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Rutter, Nat; Coppold, Murray; Rokosh, Dean

Publisher: Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Edition: Revised Second Edition

Call Number: 03.2 R93c; 03.2 R93c Reference copy

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Author: Rutter, Nat; Coppold, Murray; Rokosh, Dean

Responsibility: The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation; Nat Rutter; Murray Coppold; Dean Rokosh

Edition: Revised Second Edition

Publisher: Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits

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

Subjects: Glaciers; Climatology; Climate change; Environment; Environmental conservation; Geography; Geology

Abstract: Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)

Contents: Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.

Notes: Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation

ISBN: 9780978013219

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.2 R93c; 03.2 R93c Reference copy

Collection: Archives Library

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The geological story of Jasper Park, Alberta, Canada

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

Published Date: 1929

Author: Kindle, E.M

Publisher: Ottawa : [Printed by F.A. Acland]

Call Number: 03.2 K53g Pam

Variant Title: The geological story of Jasper National Park Canada

Author: Kindle, E.M

Responsibility: E.M. Kindle

Publisher: Ottawa : [Printed by F.A. Acland]

Published Date: 1929

Physical Description: [48] pg.

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

Subjects: Jasper National Park; Geology; Glaciers

Abstract: Pertains to the geological story of Jasper National Park. The pamphlet includes a segment on geological chronology, and the ways in which the Tertiary Times were highly influential in the development of the Rocky Mountains. Additionally, the pamphlet includes information on lakes, gorges and other features of post glacial outcomes.

Contents: Introduction (pg. 7); How the mountain began (pg. 11); Mountain sculpture (pg. 12); Geological structure (pg. 15); Underdog waters and mineral springs (pg. 19); Geological Chronology (pg. 21); Lakes, Gorges and other post-glacial features (pg. 41)