Palaeobotany of the Pennsylvanian (mid-Bolsovian-Cantabrian; Moscovian) Warwickshire Group of the Bristol Coalfield, U.K.: Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 179, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-43

  Pendleton, Janine L ^a   Cleal, Christopher J ^b   Falcon Lang, Howard J ^c,d   Wagner, Robert H ^e   Wellman, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e Jardin Botanico de Cordoba   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bristol; Carboniferous; Palaeoecology; Pennsylvanian; Upper Coal Measures; Warwickshire Group

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FERN; MIRE; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SANDSTONE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; UPLIFT;

BRISTOL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

CORDAITALES; FILICOPHYTA; LEONIA; SIGILLARIA;

EID: 84860583188     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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