Late Triassic charcoal from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 188, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 127-139

  Jones, Timothy P ^a   Ash, Sidney ^b   Figueiral, Isabel ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygen; Charcoal; Chinle Formation; Petrified Forest National Park; Triassic; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; FIRE HISTORY; OXYGEN; TRIASSIC; WOOD;

ARIZONA; PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ARAUCARIA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 0037027985     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00549-7     Document Type: Article

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