Great Canadian Lagerstätten 1. early eocene Lagerstätten of the Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia and Washington State)

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 155-164

  Bruce Archibald, S ^a,b,c   Greenwood, David R ^d,e   Smith, Robin Y ^e   Mathewes, Rolf W ^a   Basinger, James F ^e  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL BRITISH COLUMBIA MUSEUM   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRANDON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS; PALEOECOLOGY; TURNING POINTS; WARM TEMPERATURES; WASHINGTON; WASHINGTON STATE;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOLOGY;

COAL DEPOSITS;

COAL; EMERGENCE; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOECOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SEASONALITY; SHALE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; UPLAND REGION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84863268673     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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