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More model informationAge: 505 Ma
Geon: 5
Timescale (Eon/Era/Period): Phanerozoic/Paleozoic/Cambrian
Rock type: Sedimentary (metamorphosed)
Rock name: Shale
Major minerals: chlorite, muscovite, quartz, albite, calcite (+graphite, XRD)
Locality: Yoho National Park, British Columbia
Comment: Small brachiopod fossil from the Burgess Shale, deposited during the Cambrian ‘Explosion of Life’.
Rocks Through Geological Time Activity (EOSC220 Introductory Mineralogy, UBC)
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