A Middle Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian) peat-forming forest preserved in situ in volcanic ash of the Whetstone Horizon in the Radnice Basin, Czech Republic

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 234-274

  Opluštil, Stanislav ^a   Pšenička, Josef ^b   Libertín, Milan ^c   Bashforth, Arden R ^d   Šimůnek, Zbyněk ^e   Drábková, Jana ^e   Dašková, Jiřina ^f  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

in situ; palaeoecology; peat forming mires; Pennsylvanian; plant taphonomy; tuff

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; FERN; FOREST CANOPY; MIRE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PATCHINESS; PEATLAND; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; TUFF; UNDERSTORY; VOLCANIC ASH;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

CORDAITES BORASSIFOLIUS; FILICOPHYTA; LEPIDODENDRON; LEPIDOPHLOIOS; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; MARATTIALES; PARALYCOPODITES;

EID: 67749086835     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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