Paleoclimatologic analysis of a late jurassic petrified forest, southeastern Mongolia

Palaios

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 282-291

  Keller, Alysa M ^a,c   Hendrix, Marc S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c Alton Geoscience   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; PALAEOCLIMATE; PETRIFIED WOOD; TREE RING ANALYSIS;

MONGOLIA, SUIHENT;

EID: 0031463801     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515428     Document Type: Article

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