Geographic patterns in the floral response to Paleocene-Eocene warming

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 381-393

  Harrington, Guy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORA; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLLEN; SPORE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIGHORN BASIN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; POWDER BASIN; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84871421981     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.381     Document Type: Review

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