Title of article
Verdeٌa (Spain): Life and death of a Carboniferous forest community
Author/Authors
Wagner، نويسنده , , Robert H. and Diez، نويسنده , , José B.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
10
From page
495
To page
504
Abstract
The remains of a forest of 305 million years ago allow reconstructing its history of colonisation of a coastal sand bar and its destruction by marine flooding due to faulting in a high destructive deltaic setting. Sigillarian trees snapped off just above the rooting bases, whereas woody trees (cordaitaleans?) were uprooted by the unidirectional current, which oriented the fallen logs. This record puts a new perspective on reconstructions of Carboniferous forest mires.
Keywords
Stratigraphy , Flora , Taphonomy , carboniferous , Palaeoecology , Flore , Carbonifère , stratigraphie , Paléoécologie , taphonomie , Cantabrian , Sigillaria , Sigillaria , Cordaites , Cordaites , Cantabrien
Journal title
Comptes Rendus Palevol
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Comptes Rendus Palevol
Record number
2282268
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