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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
- 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
- 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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Handbook of geology for the use of Canadian students
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5302
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Author
- Dawson, Sir J. William
- Publisher
- Montreal : Dawson Brothers
- Call Number
- 03.1 D32
- Author
- Dawson, Sir J. William
- Publisher
- Montreal : Dawson Brothers
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- viii, 250p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Paleontology
- Accession Number
- 20
- Call Number
- 03.1 D32
- 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
- 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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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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Report on the geology of the country near the Forty-ninth Parallel of North Latitude west of the Rocky Mountains : from observations made 1859-1861
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5319
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1884
- Author
- Bauerman, H
- Publisher
- Montreal : Dawson Brothers
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29rp 1882-84
- Author
- Bauerman, H
- Publisher
- Montreal : Dawson Brothers
- Published Date
- 1884
- Physical Description
- 42p
- Subjects
- Columbia River
- Kootenay River
- Paleontology
- Accession Number
- 400
- Call Number
- 03.1 G29rp 1882-84
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- 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
- 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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- Archives Library
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