Vegetation heterogeneity on a Late Pennsylvanian braided-river plain draining the Variscan Mountains, La Magdalena Coalfield, northwestern Spain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 292, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 367-390

  Bashforth, Arden R ^a   Falcon Lang, Howard J ^b   Gibling, Martin R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Braided streams; Carboniferous; Coal; Communities; Plant paleoecology; Reconstruction; Stephanian; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; BRAIDED RIVER; COAL SEAM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EPHEMERAL LAKE; FERN; HETEROGENEITY; MIRE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECONSTRUCTION; STEPHANIAN; TRANSECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SPAIN;

ALETHOPTERIS; CALLIPTERIDIUM; CORDAITALES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; NEUROPTERIS; PECOPTERIS; PSEUDOMARIOPTERIS; PTERIDIUM; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; SIGILLARIA; SPHENOPSIDA;

EID: 78449245238     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.037     Document Type: Article

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