Middle Pennsylvanian pioneer plant assemblage buried in situ by volcanic ash-fall, central Bohemia, Czech Republic

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 155, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 204-233

  Libertín, Milan ^a   Opluštil, Stanislav ^b   Pšenička, Josef ^c   Bek, Jiří ^d   Sýkorová, Ivana ^e   Dašková, Jiřina ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF ROCK STRUCTURE AND MECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Czech Republic; in situ flora; Pennsylvanian; plant palaeoecology; volcanic ash

Indexed keywords

FERN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TUFF; VOLCANIC ASH;

BOHEMIA; CZECH REPUBLIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALAMITES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPHENOPTERIS;

EID: 72249107382     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.12.012     Document Type: Article

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