Criteria to distinguish parautochthonous leaves in Tertiary alluvial channel-fills

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 1-21

  Gastaldo, Robert A ^a   Ferguson, David K ^b   Walther, Harald ^c   Rabold, Joachim M ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Geozentrum   (Austria)

^c Staatliches Mus Mineral Geol D   (Germany)

^d Oberfränkische Erdgeschichtliches Museum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL CHANNEL FILL; MACROFLORA; OLIGOCENE; PARAUTOCHTHONOUS LEAF; TAPHONOMY;

GERMANY, WEISSELSTER BASIN;

EID: 0029669274     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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