* 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork.

This led scientists to recognise that Walcott had barely scratched the surface of information available in the Burgess Shale, and also made it clear that the organisms did not fit comfortably into modern groups.

Whittington, with the help of research students Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris of the University of Cambridge, began a thorough reassessment of the Burgess Shale, and revealed that the fauna represented were much more diverse and unusual than Walcott had recognized.

With Parks Canada and UNESCO recognising the significance of the Burgess Shale, collecting fossils became politically more difficult from the mid-1970s.

Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, published in 1989, brought the Burgess Shale fossils to the public's attention.

The fossiliferous deposits of the Burgess Shale correlate to the Stephen formation, a collection of slightly calcareous dark mudstones, about old.

This vertical cliff was composed of the calcareous reefs of the Cathedral Formation, which probably formed shortly before the deposition of the Burgess Shale.

It was originally thought that the Burgess Shale was deposited in anoxic conditions, but mounting research shows that oxygen was continually present in the sediment.

Brine seeps are an alternative hypothesis-see Burgess Shale type preservation for a more thorough discussion.

Walcott Quarry of the Burgess Shale showing the Walcott Quarry Shale Member.

The Burgess Shale Formation comprises 10 members, the most famous being the Walcott Quarry Shale Member comprising the greater phyllopod bed.

The biota of the Burgess Shale appears to be typical of Middle Cambrian deposits.

About two-thirds of the Burgess Shale organisms lived by feeding on the organic content in the muddy sea floor, while almost a third filtered out fine particles from the water column.

The fossils of the Burgess Shale are preserved as black carbon films on black shales, and so are difficult to photograph ; however, various photographic techniques can improve the quality of the images that can be acquired.

* Maotianshan Shales, which is often compared to Burgess Shale

Debating the significance of the Burgess Shale:

The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 ( paperback 1999 ) ISBN 0-19-850197-8 ( hbk ), ISBN 0-19-286202-2 ( pbk )

Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Vintage, 2000.

The Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Smithsonian, 1994.

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The total number of collection sites is limited and distributed over a vast period of time: Maotianshan Shale and Balang Formation ( China ), Burgess Shale and Bertie Formation ( Canada ), the Šárka Formation ( Czech Republic ), Emu Bay Shale ( Australia ), Idaho and Utah ( USA ).

They are known from fossils found in the middle Cambrian Burgess shale of British Columbia, and from the Wheeler Formation in Utah.

Burgess is located at ( 37. 555890 ,-94. 615703 ).

Burgess is located adjacent to Mulberry, Kansas just across the state line.

I was Burgess at the time and a committee of representative citizens reported to me, their fears of contemplated incendiarism against certain of the properties located here and connected with mining industries, and requested me to officially invoke protection from the State.

Burgess Hill is a civil parish and a town primarily located in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park.

The town ’ s residents may also commute to Ditchling Common Industrial Estate, another small business park just over the county border, or the Bolney Business Park, located off the A2300 between Burgess Hill and Hickstead.

In particular, the Burgess Shale, located in Yoho National Park, has among the world's richest deposits of rare fossils.

Burgess / Norton Complex are located just south of North Complex and are part of East Campus.

Apart from piecemeal residential schemes very little change along this route was made until the late 1960s with the London County Council plan of ' Lungs for Londoners ' led to the creation of new open spaces and public parks by demolition of heavily urbanised areas ; the eastern entrance to one of these, Burgess Park, is also located here at the junction with Albany Road.

The company headquarters are located in Basel and the company has many pharmaceutical and diagnostic sites around the world-including: Nutley, NJ ; Pleasanton, CA ; Branchburg, NJ ; Indianapolis, Indiana ; Florence, South Carolina ; and Ponce, Puerto Rico in the US ; Welwyn Garden City and Burgess Hill in the UK ; Clarecastle in Ireland ; Mannheim and Penzberg in Germany ; Mississauga and Laval in Canada ; Shanghai in China ; Mumbai & Hyderabad in India ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; Segrate, Milan in Italy ; Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan.

Cane Hollow, a primitive camp ground, is located off Highway 135, downstream from Burgess Falls.

It is located southwest of Burgess Hill, and west of the nearest railway station at Hassocks, from where Brighton and London are approximately 10 minutes and one hour away respectively.

The Burgess shale is located below the ridge connecting Mt.

Burgess Falls State Park is a state park and state natural area in Putnam County and White County, Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States.

At the Falling Water Cascades, located just downstream from the old Burgess Falls Dam, the river gradually spills over a embankment of rocks.

The entrance to Burgess Falls State Park is located just off Tennessee State Route 135 roughly halfway between Cookeville and Sparta.

The better-known genera include, for example, Aysheaia, which was discovered among the Canadian Burgess Shale and which is the most similar of the Lobopoda in appearance to the modern velvet worms ; a pair of appendages on the head have been considered precursors of today's antennae.

* Michael Burgess, 1989 Original Canadian Cast

However Burgess abandoned the idea and Monotype shelved the sketches, until decades later when Canadian printer Gerald Giampa stumbled upon them in 1987, after he had purchased Lanston Monotype.

All the recognized Opabinia specimens found so far come from the " Phyllopod bed " of the Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia.

It includes the Burgess Shale site, a World Heritage Site in its own right from 1980 to 1984, when it was included in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks WHS designation.

Hughes did authorize the creation of a small aviation unit to accompany the CEF to Britain and on 16 September 1914, the Canadian Aviation Corps ( CAC ) was formed with two officers, one mechanic, and $ 5000 to purchase an aircraft from the Burgess Company in Massachusetts, for delivery to Valcartier, near Quebec City.

Although Walcott spent a considerable amount of time at the Burgess Shale quarry on what became known as Fossil Ridge, he also traveled widely in other areas of the Canadian Rockies.

Together, all these national and provincial parks were declared a single UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 for the unique mountain landscapes found there, comprising peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves as well as fossils ( e. g. the Burgess Shale, once a World Heritage Site in its own right, is now part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site ).

Many of the cast members were also in the Canadian run, which starred David Cassidy, Michael Burgess and Canadian singer-songwriter Amy Sky

For example, the Burgess Shale is a thick exposure of dark, occasionally fossiliferous, shale exposed high in the Canadian Rockies near Burgess Pass.

Canadian journalist Steve Burgess wrote " Steyn wields his rhetorical rapier with genuine skill " and that national disasters tended to cause Steyn " to display his inner wingnut.

Further specimens were found by American paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1911 as a result of one of his field trips to the nearby Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and he classified it as a member of the polychaete group of annelid worms.

This production was unique in that it combined the translation by Anthony Burgess with portions of the original French text, taking advantage of Canadian bilingualism for dramatic effect.

After years in Major League Baseball as either a player or coach, Burgess was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991.

* Discovery of the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil site in the Canadian Rockies by palaeontologist Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution.

Ctenorhabdotus capulus is an extinct species of ctenophore ( Commonly known as comb jelly ), known from the Canadian Burgess shale in British Columbia.

Xanioascus canadensis is an extinct ctenophore, known from the Canadian Burgess Shale in British Columbia.

Fasciculus vesanus is an extinct species of stem-group ctenophore, known from the Canadian Burgess Shale of British Columbia.