Wildfires in past ages

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1996, Issue 116, 1996, Pages 3-18

  Martin, Helene A ^a  

^a University of NSW   (Austria)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Fire history; Fusain; Palaeobotany; Palynology; Tertiary; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005466719     PISSN: 0370047X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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