A fossil everglades-type marl prairie and its paleoenvironmental significance

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 747-755

  Reuter, Markus ^a   Piller, Werner E ^a   Harzhauser, Mathias ^b   Kroh, Andreas ^b   Berning, Björn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^c Upper Austrian State Museum   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARLEY; CALCITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CYANOBACTERIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASSLAND; LAST GLACIAL; MARL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERIPHYTON; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; UPLIFT;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

COCCOIDEA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 70849120192     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-062r     Document Type: Article

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