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A new book aimed at young adults explores the construction of the Canadian Rockies from the perspective of the minerals, fossils, and waterdrops that make and shape the landscape.
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Regular old rock? Think again. Here's your guide to erratic boulders in Alberta
Erratics are stones, boulders or big blocks picked up and moved by glaciers from one place to another during the last ice age. The province is littered with them — some more prominent, and much larger, than others.
Source: cbc.ca
MDRU awarded $2m NSERC funding for mineral exploration research in British Columbia
The project will train three postdoctoral research fellows and eleven postgraduate students to provide highly-qualified geoscientists for the Canadian minerals industry.
Source: mining.com
New Geology articles published online ahead of print in February
Giovanni Pari; Derek E.G. Briggs; Robert R. Gaines Abstract: Soft-bodied fossils of Cambrian age, now known as Burgess Shale-type biotas, were first described from the Parker Slate of the northwest Vermont (USA) slate belt in the late 19 th century, 25 years before the discovery of the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. Here, we report the rediscovery of fossiliferous horizons at Parker's Cobble, the site of the original quarry, which was thought to have been exhausted by excavation. New discoveries include a radiodont, multiple specimens of a new bivalved arthropod, a priapulid, and ...
Source: eurekalert.org