A palaeoecological model for a vegetated early Westphalian intramontane valley (Intra-Sudetic Basin, Czech Republic)

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 175-203

  Libertín, Milan ^a   Dašková, Jiřina ^b   Opluštil, Stanislav ^c   Bek, Jiří ^b   Edress, Nader ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Intra Sudetic Basin; palaeoecology; plant assemblage; taphonomy; Westphalian

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; FERN; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; LITHOLOGY; MIRE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; TAPHONOMY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WESTPHALIAN;

CZECH REPUBLIC; INTRASUDETIC BASIN;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 67749135889     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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