What happened to the coal forests during pennsylvanian glacial phases?

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 611-617

  Falcon Lang, Howard J ^a   Dimichele, William A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOME; COAL; DEGLACIATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; REFUGIUM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUCCESSION; WETLAND;

EID: 77956204829     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.p09-162r     Document Type: Article

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