Reconstructing Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) mid-latitude vegetation and climate dynamics based on spore-pollen assemblages

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 197, Issue , 2013, Pages 50-69

  Kujau, Ariane ^a   Heimhofer, Ulrich ^b   Hochuli, Peter A ^c   Pauly, Sebastian ^a   Morales, Chloé ^d   Adatte, Thierry ^d   Föllmi, Karl ^d   Ploch, Izabella ^e   Mutterlose, Jörg ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e Polish Institute of Geology   (Poland)

Author keywords

13Corg chemostratigraphy; Early Cretaceous; Nannofossil biostratigraphy; Paleoclimate; Valanginian palynology; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FERN; LATITUDE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PALYNOMORPH; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPORE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VALANGINIAN; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

FRANCE; MID-POLISH TROUGH; POLAND; VOCONTIAN TROUGH;

EID: 84879594819     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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