From wetlands to wet spots: Environmental tracking and the fate of carboniferous elements in early permian tropical fl oras

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 399, Issue , 2006, Pages 223-248

  DiMichele, William A ^a   Tabor, Neil J ^b   Chaney, Dan S ^a   Nelson, W John ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Paleosols; Permian; Tropics; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL DEPOSITS; GROUNDWATER; LITHOLOGY; SOILS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

AREAL DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACKING; PALEOSOLS; PERMIAN; SEASONAL DROUGHTS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WATERLOGGED SOILS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

ARIDITY; CARBONIFEROUS; DEEP WATER; FLOODING; GROUND COVER; PALEOSOL; PERMIAN; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRACKING; VEGETATION; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

MIDLAND BASIN; PERMIAN BASIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; MARATTIALES;

EID: 73949151251     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2399(11)     Document Type: Article

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