Late Pennsylvanian climate changes and palynomorph extinctions

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 113-140

  Kosanke, Robert M ^a   Cecil, C Blaine ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FLORAL ASSEMBLAGE; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT SWAMP; PENNSYLVANIAN;

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EID: 0029730302     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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