The seasonal climate of the Early-Middle Jurassic, Cleveland Basin, England

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-272

  Morgans, Helen S ^a   Hesselbo, Stephen P ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; JURASSIC; PALEOCLIMATE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

GINKGOPHYTA; NILSSONIOPTERIS;

EID: 0033150801     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515438     Document Type: Article

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