Recovery of vegetation from the terminal Permian mass extinction in North China

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 121-142

  Wang, Zi Qiang ^a  

^a TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOTONE; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; REFUGIA; TRIASSIC; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

CHINA;

EID: 0029669271     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00069-0     Document Type: Article

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