Late Devonian spermatophyte diversity and paleoecology at Red Hill, north-central Pennsylvania, USA

International Journal of Coal Geology

Volumn 83, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 91-102

  Cressler, Walter L ^a   Prestianni, Cyrille ^b   LePage, Ben A ^c,d  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PECO Energy Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Catskill Formation; Charcoal; Duodimidia pfefferkornii; Famennian; Seed plants; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

BEARING LAYERS; BELGIUM; CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA; DEVONIANS; ENGLAND; FLORISTIC DIVERSITY; LATE DEVONIAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; RED HILLS; SEED PLANTS; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING; TIME HORIZONS; WEST VIRGINIA;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); STRATIGRAPHY; TOOLS;

CHARCOAL;

CHARCOAL; COLONIZATION; DEPOSITION; DEVONIAN; FLORA; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT; WILDFIRE;

PENNSYLVANIA; RED HILL; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEOPTERIS; RHACOPHYTON; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 77955308396     PISSN: 01665162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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