Pennsylvanian tropical rain forests responded to glacial-interglacial rhythms

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 689-692

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coal measures; GLacial interglacial; Milankovitch cycles; Nova Scotia; Pennsylvanian ecology; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

INTERGLACIAL PHASES; RAIN FORESTS; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NOVA SCOTIA; PENNSYLVANIANS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; VEGETATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICS;

FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

COAL MEASURES; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PENNSYLVANIAN; RAINFOREST; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST; ARIDITY; CLIMATE MODELING; DEGLACIATION; FERN; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL; SUBSTRATE; WESTPHALIAN;

CANADA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 4344576587     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20523.1     Document Type: Article

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