Phytolith assemblages of grasses from the Sunderbans, India and their implications for the reconstruction of deltaic environments

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 93-102

  Ghosh, Ruby ^a,b   Naskar, Madhab ^a   Bera, Subir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Deltaic sub environments; India; Phytoliths; Proxy; Sunderbans

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; MANGROVE; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYTOLITH; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

INDIA; SUNDARBANS;

BAMBUSOIDEAE; CHLORIDOIDEAE; EHRHARTOIDEAE; PANICOIDEAE; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 80055115636     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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