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23 December 2008
The Burgess Shale – its all down to landslides!
The Burgess Shale is probably the World’s most famous assemblage of fossils, made famous in particular by Stephen Jay Gould’s book Wonderful Life. In a nutshell, the shale contains an extraordinarily well-preserved collection of Cambrian marine fossils, now generally considered to be 505 million years old. The morphology of the animals is generally somewhat extraordinary: Walcott Quarry, the site at which the Burgess Shale is exposed, is located in British …
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