Pennsylvanian tropical floras from the United States as a record of changing climate

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 305-316

  Pfefferkorn, Hermann W ^a   Gastaldo, Robert A ^b   DiMichele, William A ^c   Phillips, Tom L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fossil floras; Pennsylvanian; Tropical; United states

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRATIGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL THRESHOLD; FOSSIL FLORAS; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; PENNSYLVANIANS; STRATIGRAPHIC COLUMNS; TROPICAL; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLORA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOMORPH; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONALITY; STEPHANIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION; WESTPHALIAN;

UNITED STATES;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 75349109870     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(21)     Document Type: Article

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