Album 3
Album Three: at the Burgess Shale, August 30, 1997

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Arriving at the Walcott Quarry


First group arrives at quarry site

Paleontologist breaks open shale slabs

A fine specimen of Wiwaxia, scales visible


Looking at Burgess Shale Fossils


Tools of the trade

Display collection, note Ottoia wormlike shape

How the shale is worked

Graduate student in field tent


Dialogue about the Burgess Organisms


Des Collins addressing the group

Computer Scientists listening and questioning


Tom Ray and Des Collins discuss Cambrian Explosions against the databank of Burgess organisms


Documenting our Experiences


Christian Jacob and Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz

Demetri Terzopoulos and the hoax fossil!

Resident Geologist


Bruce Damer and Tom Ray

Bruce Damer with Desmond Collins


Bruce Damer doing presentation for Discovery crew

Exhausted camera crew


One last shot!





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