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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Archaeology
Paleontology
First Nations - (SEE ALSO Indians)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
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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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Paleontology
Walcott, Charles Doolittle
Walcott, Mary Vaux
Vaux family
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebooks
Paleontology
ISBN
0-7785-0123-X
Accession Number
1-19-1999 31,500
Call Number
03.1 Al1mu
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Paleontology
Notes
Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN
0-19-8502567
Accession Number
6-25-98 30,500
Call Number
03.2 B91m
Collection
Archives Library
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Charles Doolittle Walcott, paleontologist

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11229
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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In search of ancient Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11235
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1998
Author
Huck, Barbara
Publisher
Winnipeg : Heartland
Call Number
07.2 H86
Author
Huck, Barbara
Responsibility
Barbara Huck and Doug Whiteway
Publisher
Winnipeg : Heartland
Published Date
1998
Physical Description
287 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geology
Geomorphology
Guidebooks
Paleontology
ISBN
1-896150-00-4
Accession Number
8-13-98 31,000
Call Number
07.2 H86
Collection
Archives Library
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