Description |
viii, 332 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm |
Series |
Special paper ; 399 |
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Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 399
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Contents |
Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history / Stephen F. Greb, William A. DiMichele, and Robert A. Gastaldo -- Wetlands before tracheophytes / Alexandru Mihail Florian Tomescu and Gar W. Rothwell -- Sedimentology and taphonomy of the early to Middle Devonian plant-bearing beds of the Trout Valley Formation, Maine / Jonathan P. Allen and Robert A. Gastaldo -- Plant paleoecology of the Late Devonian Red Hill locality, north-central Pennsylvania, an Archaeopteris-dominated wetland plant community and early tetrapod site / Walter L. Cressler, III -- Tournaisian forested wetlands in the Horton Group of Atlantic Canada / Michael C. Rygel ... [et al.] -- Fayetteville flora of Arkansas (USA) / Michael T. Dunn, Gar W. Rothwell, and Gene Mapes -- Late Mississippian back-barrier marsh ecosystem in the Black Warrior and Appalachian Basins / Robert A. Gastaldo, Michael A. Gibson and Allyn Blanton-Hooks -- Hancock County tetrapod locality / William J. Garcia, Glenn W. Storrs, and Stephen F. Greb -- Fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia / John H. Calder ... [et al.] -- Compositional characteristics and inferred origin of three Late Pennsylvania coal beds from the northern Appalachian Basin / Cortland F. Eble, William C. Grady, and Brenda S. Pierce -- From wetlands to wet spots / William A. DiMichele ... [et al.] -- Carbon isotopic evidence for terminal-Permian methane outbursts and their role in extinctions of annimals, plants, coral reefs, and peat swamps / Gregory J. Retallack and Evelyn S. Krull -- Controls on the formation of an anomalously thick Cretaceous-age coal mire / T.A. Moore, Z. Li, and N.A. Moore -- Palecology of a late Pleistocene wetland and assocated mastodon remains in the Hudson Valley, southeastern New York State / Norton G. Miller and Peter L. Nester |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Paleoecology -- North America.
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Paleoecology -- Paleozoic.
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Wetlands -- North America -- History.
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Author |
Greb, Stephen F.
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DiMichele, William A.
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LC no. |
2005058232 |
ISBN |
081372399X paperback |
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