Terrestrial vegetation record across the initial Eocene thermal maximum at the Tawanui marine section, New Zealand

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 369, Issue , 2003, Pages 351-363

  Crouch, Erica M ^a,b   Visscher, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POLLEN ASSEMBLAGE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; TERRIGENOUS INPUTS; THERMAL MAXIMA;

VEGETATION;

EOCENE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84871445193     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2369-8.351     Document Type: Article

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