An English Wealden floral list, with comments on possible environmental indicators

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-26

  Watson, Joan ^a   Alvin, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate; England; Fire; Floral list; Lower Cretaceous; Wealden; Xeromorphy

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; CRETACEOUS; FIRE CLIMAX COMMUNITY; PALAEOBOTANY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; WEALDEN;

UK, ENGLAND;

EID: 0029749152     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0002     Document Type: Article

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