A palynological study of an extinct arctic ecosystem from the Palaeocene of Northern Alaska

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Daly, Robert J ^a   Jolley, David W ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^b   Ahlberg, Anders ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ecology; Metasequoia; Palaeocene; Palynology; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOME; BRYOPHYTE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DOMINANCE; FERN; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CORYLUS; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; METASEQUOIA;

EID: 79959886818     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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