A Holocene pollen record recovered from a guano deposit: Round Spring Cavern, Missouri, USA

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 332-341

  Batina, Matthew C ^a   Reese, Carl A ^a  

^a University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; FECES; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; VEGETATION TYPE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79953021518     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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