Middle Wisconsinan and recent wet site mummified wood, humus, peat, and pollen, Santa Rosa Island, Florida

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 243-266

  Lewis, Barbara A ^a   Wrenn, John H ^b   Lewis, Anthony J ^b   Alford, John J ^a   Alford, Deanne ^a  

^a Louisiana State University ^*  (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Basidiomycetes; Florida Gulf Coast; Middle Wisconsin; Pollen; Radiocarbon dates

Indexed keywords

HUMUS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT; POLLEN; RADIOCARBON DATING; WISCONSINAN; WOOD;

FLORIDA; SANTA ROSA ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; EUDICOTYLEDONS; FUNGI; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; LAURACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PERSEA; PERSEA AMERICANA; PINACEAE; ROSA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0142052824     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-6667(03)00090-3     Document Type: Article

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