Palynology and palynostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota: A microfossil record of plants at the end of Cretaceous time

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 393-456

  Nichols, Douglas J ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; NEW SPECIES; NORTH DAKOTA; PALYNOMORPHS; PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLANT LIFE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; CYST; MAASTRICHTIAN; MICROFOSSIL; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOMORPH; SPORE;

NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871291556     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.393     Document Type: Article

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