Geology 790.3

geology and fossils of the burgess shale

READING LIST

Aitken, J.D., 1971
Control of Lower Paleozoic sedimentary facies by the Kicking Horse Rim, southern Rocky Mountains, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 19, p. 557-569

Allison, P.A., and Brett, C.E., 1995 

In situ benthos and paleo-oxygenation in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Geology, v. 23, p. 1079-1082
Briggs, D.E.G., Erwin, D.H., Collier, F.J., 1994
The Fossils of the Burgess Shale. Smithsonian Institution Press, 238 pp
Butterfield, N.J., 1990
Organic preservation of non-mineralizing organisms and the taphonomy of the Burgess Shale. Paleobiology, v. 16, p. 272-286
Butterfield, N.J., 1995
Secular distribution of Burgess-Shale-type preservation. Lethaia, v. 28, p. 1-13
Collins, D.H., Briggs, D.E.G., and Conway Morris, S., 1983
New Burgess Shale sites reveal Middle Cambrian faunal complex. Science, v. 222, p. 163-167
Conway Morris, S., 1986
The community structure of the Middle Cambrian Phyllopod Bed (Burgess Shale). Palaeontology, v. 29, p. 423-467
Fletcher, T.P., and Collins, D.H., 1998
The Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and its relationship to the Stephen Formation in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 35, p. 413-436
Gould, S.J., 1989
Wonderful Life. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Norton
McIlreath, I.A., and Aitken, J.D., 1977
The formation and subsequent preservation of the Burgess Shale and other nearby, remarkable faunas due to the effects of the middle Cambrian Cathedral Escarpment: Journal of Paleontology, v. 51, p. 18-19
Nesbitt, B.E., and Prochaska, W., 1998
Solute chemistry of inclusion fluids from sparry dolomites and magnesites in Middle Cambrian carbonate rocks of the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 35, p. 546-555
Ney, C.S., 1957
Monarch and Kicking Horse Mines. In: Structural Geology of Canadian Ore Deposits, Volume 2, p. 143-152
Orr, P.J., Briggs, D.E,G., and Kearns, S.L., 1998
Cambrian Burgess Shale animals replicated in clay minerals. Science, v. 281, pp. 1173-1175
Piper, D.J.W., 1972
Sediments of the Midddle Cambrian Burgess Shale, Canada. Lethaia, v. 5, p. 169-175
Stewart, W.D., Dixon, O.A., and Rust, B.R., 1993
Middle Cambrian carbonate-platform collapse, southeastern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Geology, v. 21, p. 687-690
Symons. D.T.A., Lewchuk, M.T., and Sangster, D.F., 1998
Laramide orogenic fluid flow into the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Evidence from paleomagnetic dating of the Kicking Horse Mississippi Valley-Type ore deposit. Economic Geology, v. 93, p. 68-83
Towe, K.M., 1996
Fossil preservation in the Burgess Shale. Lethaia, v. 29, p. 107-108