Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe - The Zechstein (Upper Permian) of NW-Hesse (Germany)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-15

  Uhl, Dieter ^a,b   Kerp, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Charcoal; Oxygen levels; Upper Permian; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CHARCOAL; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; WILDFIRE; WOOD;

GERMANY; HESSE;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 0141750476     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00482-6     Document Type: Article

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