Pennsylvanian vegetation and climate in tropical Variscan Euramerica

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Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-12

  Cleal, Christopher J ^a   Opluštil, Stanislav ^b   Thomas, Barry A ^c   Tenchov, Yanaki ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CANOPY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH RATE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; STEPHANIAN; SWAMP; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WESTPHALIAN;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 79958038539     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2011/v34i1/002     Document Type: Article

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