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Burgess Shale


(BUR-jis) A famous rock formation in the western Canadian Rockies, containing unusally well-preserved fossil invertebrates of the early Cambrian Period (from about 540 million years ago). The Burgess Shale fossils provide valuable information about the evolution of early life on Earth.	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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