Late Early Permian plant fossils from the Canadian High Arctic: A rare paleoenvironmental/climatic window in northwest Pangea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 191, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 345-372

  LePage, Ben A ^a   Beauchamp, Benoit ^b   Pfefferkorn, Hermann W ^a   Utting, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kungurian; Marine; North America; Paleoclimate; Paleozoic; Terrestrial

Indexed keywords

GYMNOSPERM; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PERMIAN;

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CORDAITALES; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; RUFLORIA; SPHENOPSIDA; WALCHIA;

EID: 0037456278     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00671-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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