Mount Stephen Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation One Of The World's Most Important Fossil Sites Sun, 06 Dec 2020 23:05:19 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-cropped-Adobe-Express-file-32x32.png Mount Stephen Archives - The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation 32 32 A Mine in Yoho National Park? https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/a-mine-in-yoho-national-park/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:13:19 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2417 A mine. In a National Park. Inside a mountain. Not what you would expect but for over sixty years, zinc and lead where mined from within Mount Stephen and Mount Field in Yoho National Park. These mines were the only successful metal mines in the Canadian Rockies.  Railway construction workers chanced upon lead-zinc ore in the […]

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]]> The Geology of the Burgess Shale (Part 3): The Cathedral Escarpment https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/the-geology-of-the-burgess-shale-the-cathedral-escarpment-part-3/ Thu, 09 May 2019 21:28:03 +0000 http://cpb.dvr.mybluehost.me/?p=1795 A spectacular submarine cliff over 100 metres high – the Cathedral Escarpment- marked the front of the algal limestones of the Cathedral Formation. The Cathedral Escarpment was initially thought to be a product of prolific algal growth and sediment accumulation during a period of sea level rise. A re-interpretation suggested that the escarpment is the […]

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]]> The Geology of the Burgess Shale (Part 2): What Rocks Tell Us About Life https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/the-geology-of-the-burgess-shale-what-rocks-tell-us-about-life-part-2/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:42:08 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2251 The picture above features fossil ridge, situated behind and to the right of the hikers; as well as, Mt Wapta, situated behind and slightly to the left of the hikers. The former is where the Walcott Quarry is located.  Below we describe why fossil ridge and Mount Wapta have mudstone (shale) rocks lower down on the […]

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]]> The History of Yoho National Park and the Discovery of the Burgess Shale https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/the-history-of-yoho-national-park-and-the-discovery-of-its-fossils/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:03:49 +0000 https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/?p=2341 Yoho National Park was established In 1886, as Canada’s second national park. This occurred only twenty eight years after the first European, James Hector, laid eyes on the area. The tiny Yoho National Park encompassed only 26 square kilometres at the base of Mount Stephen. The park was subsequently expanded four more times before the […]

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