Paleoclimate and paleoelevation of the Oligocene Pitch-Pinnacle flora, Sawatch Range, Colorado

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 545-561

  Gregory, Kathryn M ^a   McIntosh, W C ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; ANNUAL RANGE; GROWING SEASON; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOELEVATION; TEMPERATURE DROPS; OLIGOCENE;

DETERIORATION;

ELEVATION; LEAF; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER; ANGIOSPERM; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOELEVATION; PITCH- PINNACLE FLORA;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAWATCH RANGE; USA;

EID: 0029752774     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0545:PAPOTO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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