Palynology of the Hell Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) in northwestern South Dakota: Effects of paleoenvironment on the composition of palynomorph assemblages

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 457-472

  Kroeger, Timothy J ^a  

^a BEMIDJI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; FLOODS; LAKES; MIXTURES; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EDAPHIC CONDITIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOUTH DAKOTAS; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

RIVERS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOMORPH; POLLEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

EID: 78649768452     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.457     Document Type: Article

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