Palaeoecology of selected South African export coals from the Vryheid Formation, with emphasis on the role of heterosporous lycopods and wildfire derived inertinite

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Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 959-970

  Glasspool, Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coal petrology; Early Permian; Megaspores; South Africa; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

WILDFIRE;

COAL;

COAL; MINERAL DEPOSITS; PLANTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037408677     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-2361(02)00403-9     Document Type: Article

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