Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid-Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-273

  Vajda, Vivi ^a   Raine, J Ian ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conway Formation; Fern spike, paleoclimate, impact winter; K T boundary; Late Cretaceous; Paleocene; Palynology

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FERN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; SPORE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WAIPARA RIVER;

NOTHOFAGUS; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 0043180463     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515008     Document Type: Article

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