Anatomically-preserved tree-trunks in late Mississippian (Serpukhovian, late Pendleian-Arnsbergian) braided fluvial channel facies, near Searston, southwest Newfoundland, Canada

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 154-162

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a   Galtier, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

braided fluvial; Carboniferous; fossil wood; Mississippian; Newfoundland; Pitus; pteridosperm; Serpukhovian; tree rings

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIDED RIVER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FACIES; FERN; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; MISSISSIPPIAN; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; PTERIDOPHYTE; TREE RING; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WOOD;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; PITUS; PROTOPITYS; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 77951257479     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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