Park
Marble Canyon Trailhead
Narrow gorge of dolomite and limestone carved by a glacial creek, its walls sculpted into slots and natural rock bridges.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Marble Canyon Trailhead in Kootenay National Park follows geologist Robert Gaines and paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron, who in the summer of twenty twelve bet on a hunch about the rock layer beneath these mountains. It traces their two-week dig and how it measured up against Charles Walcott's original nineteen-oh-nine discovery of the Burgess Shale, forty-two kilometers away. Stand at the canyon rim, where Tokumm Creek has cut through dolomite and limestone rather than the marble the name promises.
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