"The Sedimentary Record" a quarterly publication of the The
Society for Sedimentary Geology contains an article about
how the Burgess Shale fossils were formed, which can be
downloaded for free as a PDF file from [www.sepm.org].

It is:

Gaines, R. R., 2005, New Approaches to
Understanding the Mechanics of Burgess
Shale-type Deposits: From the Micron
Scale to the Global Picture, The
Sedimentary Record. vol. 3, no. 2,
pp. 4-8. (June 2005)

This 404 KB PDF file can be downloaded from [www.sepm.org].

Related articles published by Dr. Gaines are:

Gaines, R. R., Kennedy, M. J., Droser,
M. L., 2005, A new hypothesis for organic
preservation of Burgess Shale taxa in the
middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation, House
Range, Utah. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology vol. 220, pp. 193–205.

Gaines,R. R., and Droser, M. l., 2003, Paleoecology
of the familiar trilobite Elrathia kingii: An
early exaerobic zone inhabitant. Geology. vol. 31;
no. 11; pp. 941–944 (November 2003)

The above papers provide clear evidence that the Wheeler Shale,
which contains a pseudo-sandle print, much written about by
Hindu and Young Earth creationists as an "Out of Place Fossil,
accumulated within a deep sea / ocean environment where it was
impossible for anyone to have been walking.

For more about this pseudo-footprint, the so-called "Meister
Print", go read "The "Meister Print" by Glen J. Kuban (1998)
at [paleo.cc] and [www.talkorigins.org].

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead; it's not even past."
-- Requiem for a Nun, Act I Scene iii
William Cuthbert Faulkner



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