Yellowstone hot spring environments and the palaeo-ecophysiology of rhynie chert plants: Towards a synthesis

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-143

  Channing, Alan ^a   Edwards, Dianne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fossilisation; Geothermal wetland; Permineralisation; Silicification; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77951545040     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550870903349359     Document Type: Review

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