Megafloral perturbation across the Enna Marine Zone in the Upper Silesian Basin attests to Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian) deglaciation and climate change

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 351-366

  Gastaldo, Robert A ^a   Purkyňová, Eva ^b   Šimůnek, Zbyněk ^c  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

^b Silesian Regional Museum   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEGLACIATION; EXTINCTION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MISSISSIPPIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 67650701122     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.p07-027r     Document Type: Article

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