Late carboniferous tropical dryland vegetation in an alluvial-plain setting, Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-211

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; CARBONIFEROUS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CANADA;

CORDAITES; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; RIPARIA; SIGILLARIA; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 0041524750     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0197:LCTDVI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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