Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An eocene example: Comment

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-93

  Wolfe, Jack A ^a   Uemura, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0002844208     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0091:UFLAPI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Note

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