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Tertiary Floras and Paleoclimates of the Northern Hemisphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2017

Jack A. Wolfe
Jack A. Wolfe*
Affiliation:
Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch, MS-919, U. S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
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Studies of Tertiary plant megafossils typically have aimed at gathering paleoclimatologic and/or biogeographic data. The apparent similarities of Tertiary fossil plants to extant plants have made tempting the use of present plant/climatic relations to infer past climates. Additionally, plant-bearing, nonmarine deposits of Tertiary age are more widespread than older deposits, which allows stratigraphic and geographic distributions of Tertiary plants to be determined with greater accuracy than for older plants.

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Research Article
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Series in Geology, Notes for Short Course , Volume 15: Land Plants , 1986 , pp. 182 - 196
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Copyright © 1986 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

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