A review of the palynostratigraphy of gondwanan late carboniferous to early permian glacigene successions

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 317-330

  Stephenson, Michael H ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Correlation; Gondwana glaciation; Palynology; Permian

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; PERMIAN; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

AUSTRALIA; COLLIE BASIN; KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CONFLUENS; VITTATINA;

EID: 56049125994     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(22)     Document Type: Review

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