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I.—The Canadian Rockies. Part I: On a Collection of Middle Cambrian Fossils obtained by Edward Whymper, Esq., F.R.G.S., from Mount Stephen, British Columbia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

The accompanying section (Plate XXII) will serve to show, diagrammatically (after Dr. Ami), the succession of the Cambrian rocks at Mount Stephen and Mount Field, B.C., and the position of the Trilobite bed on the flanks of Mount Stephen (referred to on p. 503) from which Mr. Whymper's collection was obtained.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1902

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Footnotes

1

Read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section C, Geology), Belfast, September 11th, 1902.

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