The "medullosalean forest" at the Lloyd Cove Seam (Pennsylvanian, Sydney Coalfield, Nova Scotia, Canada)

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 177-195

  Zodrow, Erwin L ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL SEAM; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PENNSYLVANIAN; STEM; TREE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; SYDNEY COALFIELD;

PTERIDOSPERMAE;

EID: 0742305304     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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