Walcott Quarry
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The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod beds. This lies at the base of the Walcott
Walcott and his team collecting from the Phyllopod bed, c. 1913
Walcott talus
Stephen Formation
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The Stephen Formation is a geologic formation exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia and Alberta, on the western edge of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It consists of shale, thin-b
Walcott Quarry
…UE and EZ – lie above it. The quarry's proximity to the Cathedral escarpment led to the preservation of spectacular fossils. Map of the Burgess Shale (Stephen Formation), as well as the Mount Whyte Formation. Major Localities within the shale are shown. History After locating soft-bodied fossils in loose fragments of…
The Walcott Quarry in the Stephen Formation shales