The Fayetteville Flora of Arkansas (USA): A snapshot of terrestrial vegetation patterns within a clastic swamp at Late Mississippian time

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 399, Issue , 2006, Pages 127-137

  Dunn, Michael T ^a   Rothwell, Gar W ^b   Mapes, Gene ^b  

^a CAMERON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clastic swamp; Community; Compression; Landscape; Mississippian; Permineralization

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

CLASTIC SWAMP; COMMUNITY; LANDSCAPE; MISSISSIPPIANS; PERMINERALIZATION;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CANOPY; FERN; FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LANDSCAPE; MISSISSIPPIAN; PLANT; SEED; SWAMP; TREE; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION;

ARKANSAS; FAYETTEVILLE; UNITED STATES;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 73949149001     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2399(06)     Document Type: Article

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