Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 329-391

  Johnson, Kirk R ^a  

^a DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC POLARITY; STRATIGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE WARMING; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DOMINANT PLANTS; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; FLORA; MAASTRICHTIAN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; SURVIVORSHIP; TRANSGRESSION; VERTEBRATE; WARMING; WOODLAND;

NORTH DAKOTA; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871324045     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.329     Document Type: Article

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