Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 203-206

  Wilf, Peter ^a   Wing, Scott L ^a   Greenwood, David R ^b   Greenwood, Cathy L ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOPRECIPITATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; WESTERN UNITED STATES; OCEAN CIRCULATION;

MOISTURE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LEAF; LEAF AREA; PALEOBOTANY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER VAPOR; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOPRECIPATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031869721     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0203:UFLAPI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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