Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 425-440

  Wing, Scott L ^a   Harrington, Guy J ^b   Bowen, Gabriel J ^c   Koch, Paul L ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SCALE; FLORAL CHANGE; IN COMPOSITIONS; LATE QUATERNARY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARIES; POWDER RIVER BASIN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; THERMAL MAXIMA;

WATERSHEDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

POWDER BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84871424994     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.425     Document Type: Article

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