Age and implications of the Forest Bed, Falkland Islands, southwest Atlantic Ocean: Evidence from fossil pollen and spores

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 240, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 602-629

  Macphail, Mike ^a   Cantrill, David J ^b  

^a Swedish Museum of Natural History ^*  (Australia)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Falkland Islands; Forest Bed; Miocene; Palaeoclimate; Pliocene subantarctic flora; Southwest Atlantic; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CLAY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; GROUND COVER; LIGNITE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PALEOGENE; PLIOCENE; POLLEN; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SPORE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLAVATIPOLLENITES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CYATHEACIDITES; DACRYDIUM (CONIFER); FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEDYOSMUM; LAGAROSTROBOS; LOPHOSORIA; NOTHOFAGUS; OVIDIA; PODOCARPUS; ZANCLEA;

EID: 33748919454     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.010     Document Type: Article

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