Plant communities and climate change in southeastern Australia during the early Paleogene

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 365-380

  Greenwood, David R ^a   Moss, Patrick T ^b,d   Rowett, Andrew I ^c   Vadala, Anthony J ^a   Keefe, Rachael L ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Mineral Resources Group   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARAUCARIACEAE; HUMID CLIMATES; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MICROTHERMAL; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOGENE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84871424287     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.365     Document Type: Article

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