Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A rock formation in the western Canadian Rockies containing a wealth of fossilized invertebrates of the early Cambrian Period that were buried by an underwater avalanche of fine silt, preserving many details of their soft parts and providing valuable information about the evolution of early life.
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- proper noun A
rock formation in theCanadian Rockies that contains very manyfossils from theCambrian period.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fossil was discovered in a rock layer called the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com James Gerken 2012
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The new fossils, five trackways made by the ancient arthropod, were uncovered in two locations in Yoho National Park in British Columbia in a geologic formation called the Burgess Shale.
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However, Christian apologist Dinesh D'Souza assures us that this is no longer "conventional wisdom" in biology and that some prominent biologists, notably the Nobel laureate Christian de Duve and Simon Conway Morris, the leading expert on the fossils of the Burgess Shale, have argued that "all this talk about randomness and contingency is overrated."
Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011
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However, Christian apologist Dinesh D'Souza assures us that this is no longer "conventional wisdom" in biology and that some prominent biologists, notably the Nobel laureate Christian de Duve and Simon Conway Morris, the leading expert on the fossils of the Burgess Shale, have argued that "all this talk about randomness and contingency is overrated."
Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011
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However, Christian apologist Dinesh D'Souza assures us that this is no longer "conventional wisdom" in biology and that some prominent biologists, notably the Nobel laureate Christian de Duve and Simon Conway Morris, the leading expert on the fossils of the Burgess Shale, have argued that "all this talk about randomness and contingency is overrated."
Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011
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However, Christian apologist Dinesh D'Souza assures us that this is no longer "conventional wisdom" in biology and that some prominent biologists, notably the Nobel laureate Christian de Duve and Simon Conway Morris, the leading expert on the fossils of the Burgess Shale, have argued that "all this talk about randomness and contingency is overrated."
Victor Stenger: Contingency or Convergence? Victor Stenger 2011
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The Burgess Shale included trilobites exceptionally preserved with all these details, and many different soft-bodied animals besides.
Harry Whittington obituary Richard Fortey 2010
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My disappointment at not having the God of the Burgess Shale is mitigated only by the fact that it is on its way to the Vatican astronomer Brother Guy.
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This has some interesting implications not only with respect to long-term morphological stasis, but also with respect to long-term stasis of an ecology as represented by the Burgess Shale type fauna.
Common ancestry passes another test. News at 11. - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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In 1966 Harry took up the post of Woodwardian professor at Cambridge University, and drawers full of Burgess Shale animals crossed the Atlantic with him.
Harry Whittington obituary Richard Fortey 2010
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