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Mt. Stephen near Field, B.C. © Parks Canada 
Mt. Stephen near Field, B.C.
© Parks Canada

Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Royal Ontario Museum

Virtual Museum of Canada

Friends of Yoho National Park

Phlesch Bubble Productions

UNESCO: World Heritage List

UNESCO: Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

Resources

Web sites

Virtual Museum of Canada - The Burgess Shale
The Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada partnered to create this online exhibition.

Soaking in the view © Parks Canada
Soaking in the view above Emerald Lake 
© Parks Canada / R. Hostin

The Burgess Shale (University of California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)

The Cambrian Sea - Movie! (Phlesch Bubble Productions) 

Interactive: Creatures of the Burgess Shale (Calgary Herald)

Charles D. Walcott (Wikipedia) 

Articles

Marshall, Michael. "Oxygen crash led to Cambrian mass extinction", New Scientist. 2011.

CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. "Riddle of Burgess Shale's fossil-rich deposits solved", 2008.  

Courses

The Burgess Shale Fossils Course (GeoHistory Inc.)

Events

Walcott 2009: International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion


 

 



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