Principal Investigator:Narbonne, Guy Licensed Year(s):2013
2012
Summary:
The world’s earliest animals appeared in the Ediacaran Period about 580 million years ago, and soft worm-like animals capable of movement appeared suddenly worldwide 555 million years ago. Previous studies (Narbonne and Aitken, Palaeontology, 1990; MacNaughton and Narbonne, Palaios, 1999; Narbonne, The Rise of Animals, 2007) have shown that these fossils are especially well represented in the Mac...
Principal Investigator:Narbonne, Guy Licensed Year(s):
1994
1993 Summary:
At each locality, we will measure the rock section with a tape and collect samples with a hammer. Samples collected will be examined under a microscope and using geochemical techniques at Queen's University. Research will concentrate on determining conditions under which these reefs (1200 million year old fossil reefs on the Borden Peninsula) grew and comparing it with the condition under which mo...
Principal Investigator:Narbonne, Guy Licensed Year(s):20011999199819961994199219911989
1988
Summary:
Dr. Narbonne will be collecting fossils of animals living in this area long ago....