Regional and local vegetation community dynamics of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia - Washington State) from palynology

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-204

  Moss, Patrick T ^a   Greenwood, David R ^b   Archibald, S Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

FOREST FLORISTIC COMPONENTS; LANDSCAPES; PALYNOFLORAS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY; PLANTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ABIES; ALNUS; BETULA; CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGACEAE; JUGLANDACEAE; METASEQUOIA; PINACEAE; PSEUDOLARIX; ULMUS;

EID: 19344372633     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e04-095     Document Type: Article

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