A Pliocene Podocarpus forest mire from the area of the high plain of Bogotá (Cordillera Oriental, Colombia)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 157-173

  Wijninga, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCHORNEA; FILICOPHYTA; HEDYOSMUM; ILEX; MELASTOMATACEAE; MYRSINE; PODOCARPUS;

FOREST; MIRE; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE; VEGETATION;

COLOMBIA, CORDILLERA ORIENTAL, BOGOTA;

EID: 0029730792     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00101-8     Document Type: Article

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