Paleoecology of Mid-Wisconsinan peat clasts from Skidaway Island, Georgia

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-68

  Booth, Robert K ^a   Rich, Fredrick J ^b   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; WISCONSINAN;

UNITED STATES;

CARYA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; HYALOSPHENIA; PINUS SEROTINA; PINUS TAEDA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0037293349     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0063:POMWPC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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