Fossil leaves as palaeoclimate proxies in the Palaeogene of Spitsbergen (Svalbard)

Acta Palaeobotanica

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-107

  Uhl, Dieter ^a,b,d   Traiser, Christopher ^b   Griesser, Ursel ^b   Denk, Thomas ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Coexistence Approach; Leaf physiognomy; Palaeoclimate; Palaeogene; Spitsbergen

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; COEXISTENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLORA; FOSSIL; LEAF; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 38049055245     PISSN: 00016594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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