Climate change, plant extinctions and vegetational recovery during the middle-late Pennsylvanian transition: The case of tropical peatforming environments in North America

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 102, Issue , 1996, Pages 201-221

  Dimichele, William A ^a   Phillips, Tom L ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; STEPHANIA;

EID: 0043138120     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.001.01.14     Document Type: Article

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