Structure of a near-polar latitude forest from the New Zealand Jurassic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 121-139

  Pole, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fossil wood; Jurassic; New Zealand; Palaeoclimatology; Plantae; Polar regions

Indexed keywords

FOREST; JURASSIC;

NEW ZEALAND;

FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; PLANTAE;

EID: 0033106199     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00151-5     Document Type: Article

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