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

The Burgess Shale Formation, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind.

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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According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation.

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In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.

Disco was an influence on house music, which was also influenced by mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers like Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M and others who produced longer, more repetitive and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings.

He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue ( née Noel ) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company.

In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.

At the same time, Guy Burgess was trying to get her into MI6.

On his first meeting in her office, Philby was surprised to see his old friend from Cambridge, Guy Burgess, who was already working there.

Burgess was fired for " irreverence ", and Philby was appointed as an instructor in the art of clandestine propaganda at the SOE's training establishment in Beaulieu, Hampshire.

However, natural gratings do occur in some invertebrate marine animals, like the antennae of seed shrimp, and have even been discovered in Burgess Shale fossils.

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.

Unlike most other Burgess forms, Sanctacaris is not present in Charles Walcott's 1909 quarry and was discovered at a different level by Desmond Collins in 1980-1981.

In a near-future, a British neuroscientist named Professor Burgess Phelan has discovered a portion of the brain, the VMN, that is typically twice the size in men as it is in women.

It was thought that only tough, cuticle type soft tissue could be preserved by Burgess shale type preservation, but an increasing number of organisms are being discovered that lack such cuticle, such as the probable chordate Pikaia and the shellless Odontogriphus.

The Burgess Shale was discovered in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

A portion of the Burgess Shale fossils were discovered on Mount Stephen.

* 1909 — Cambrian fossils in the Burgess Shale are discovered by Charles Walcott.

Sidneyia was discovered in 1910 during the first day of Charles Walcott's exploration of the Burgess Shale.

Scott Burgess, a conservative American blogger living in London, searched for Aslam's name on the Internet and discovered that he was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir and had written articles for its website, Khilafah. com.