Ordovician and Silurian cryptospores and miospores from southeastern Turkey

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 93, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 35-76

  Steemans, P ^a   Le Herisse A ^b   Bozdogan, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UFR SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES   (France)

^c TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICRYPTOSPORITES; ORDOVICIAN; PALYNOMORPH; SEGESTRESPORA; SILURIAN; VELATITETRAS;

EID: 0030251244     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00119-0     Document Type: Article

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