Fossil plants as palaeoenvironmental proxies - Some remaks on selected approaches

Acta Palaeobotanica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-100

  Uhl, Dieter ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoenvironment; Permian; Preservation; Taphonomy; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CARBONIFEROUS; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; RECONSTRUCTION; SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION; TAPHONOMY; TERTIARY;

EID: 38049091123     PISSN: 00016594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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