Palynological evidence of vegetation dynamics in response to palaeoenvironmental change across the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Cobham, Southern England

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Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-66

  Collinson, Margaret E ^a   Steart, David C ^b   Harrington, Guy J ^c   Hooker, Jerry J ^d   Scott, Andrew C ^a   Allen, Lynn O ^e   Glasspool, Ian J ^f   Gibbons, Sharon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e Burnet Close   (United Kingdom)

^f FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope excursion; Charcoal; Cobham Lignite Bed; Fern; Fire; Flora; PETM; Pollen; Spore

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; LIGNITE; PALEOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

COBHAM; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; KENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICATRICOSISPORITES; CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SCHIZAEACEAE;

EID: 69149105717     PISSN: 00173134     EISSN: 16512049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00173130802707980     Document Type: Article

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