Vegetation ecology of Early Pennsylvanian alluvial fan and piedmont environments in southern New Brunswick, Canada

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 34-50

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Coal; Fern Ledges; Joggins Formation; Pennsylvanian; Uplands

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; PENNSYLVANIAN; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA;

CORDAITALES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 33644959661     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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