Eocene-Miocene carbon-isotope and floral record from brown coal seams in the Gippsland Basin of southeast Australia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 89-103

  Holdgate, Guy R ^a   McGowran, Brian ^b   Fromhold, Tom ^a   Wagstaff, Barbara E ^a   Gallagher, Stephen J ^a   Wallace, Malcolm W ^a   Sluiter, Ian R K ^c   Whitelaw, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^d EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric CO2; brown coal; carbon isotopes; Cenozoic; Eocene to Miocene; Gippsland Basin; gymnosperms; Southeast Australia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANGIOSPERM; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; EOCENE; GLACIATION; GYMNOSPERM; LIGNITE; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GIPPSLAND BASIN;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 58549097253     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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