Eocene Monsoon Forests in Central Australia?

Australian Systematic Botany

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-112

  Greenwood, David R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYCHITON; CUNONIACEAE; ELAEOCARPACEAE; EUCALYPTUS; GYMNOSTOMA; LOPHOSTEMON; PODOCARPACEAE; PROTEACEAE; SYZYGIUM;

EOCENE; FOREST; MONSOON FOREST; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, LAKE EYRE;

EID: 0030472653     PISSN: 10301887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SB9960095     Document Type: Article

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