Identifying high-level salt marshes using a palynomorphic fingerprint with potential implications for tracking sea level change

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-69

  Marsh, Pamela E ^a   Cohen, Arthur D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

fungi; Juncus roemerianus; salt marsh; sea level

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FUNGUS; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MONOCOTYLEDON; PALYNOMORPH; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRACKING;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ATROTORQUATA LINEATA; FUNGI; JUNCUS; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS;

EID: 36349019857     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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