Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica

Cleal, C. J.; Opluštil, S.; Thomas, B. A.; Tenchov, Y.; Abbink, O. A.; Bek, Jiří; Dimitrova, T.; Drábková, J.; Hartkopf-Fröder, Ch.; van Hoof, T.; Kedzior, A.; Jarzembowski, E.; Jasper, K.; Libertín, M.; McLean, D.; Oliwkiewicz-Miklasinska, M.; Pšenička, J.; Ptak, B.; Schneider, J. W.; Schultka, S.; Šimůnek, Z.; Uhl, D.; Waksmundzka, M. I.; van Waveren, I.; Zodrow, E. L.

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Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica

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SYSNO ASEP	0356689
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica
Author(s)	Cleal, C. J. (GB) Opluštil, S. (CZ) Thomas, B. A. (GB) Tenchov, Y. (BG) Abbink, O. A. (NL) Bek, Jiří (GLU-S)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Dimitrova, T. (BG) Drábková, J. (CZ) Hartkopf-Fröder, Ch. (DE) van Hoof, T. (NL) Kedzior, A. (PL) Jarzembowski, E. (GB) Jasper, K. (DE) Libertín, M. (CZ) McLean, D. (GB) Oliwkiewicz-Miklasinska, M. (PL) Pšenička, J. (CZ) Ptak, B. (PL) Schneider, J. W. (DE) Schultka, S. (DE) Šimůnek, Z. (CZ) Uhl, D. (DE) Waksmundzka, M. I. (PL) van Waveren, I. (NL) Zodrow, E. L. (CA)
Source Title	Netherlands Journal of Geosciences-Geologie en Mijnbouw - ISSN 0016-7746 Roč. 88, č. 4 (2009), s. 181-278
Number of pages	98 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	NL - Netherlands
Keywords	Pennsylvanian Subsystem ; climates ; vegetation ; faunas ; sedimentology
Subject RIV	DB - Geology ; Mineralogy
CEZ	AV0Z30130516 - GLU-S (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000280716000001
EID SCOPUS	77954988269
Annotation	A synthesis of the upper Moscovian sedimentological and palaeontological record of terrestrial habitats across the Variscan foreland suggests a contraction and westward shift of the coal swamps. These changes can be correlated with pulses of tectonic activity resulting from the northwards migration of the Variscan Front. This tectonic activity caused drainage patterns where the coal swamps were growing and replacement of swampy arborescent lycopsids by vegetation dominated by marattialean ferns. Reductions in rainfall further affected the swamp vegetation. In Asturian times, the swamps in Variscan Euramerica became replaced by predominantly conifer and cordaite vegetation that favoured much drier substrates. The last development of coal swamps in Variscan foreland was of early Cantabrian age. In the USA, lycopsid-dominated coal swamps persisted for a little longer and disappeared by middle-late Cantabrian times.
Workplace	Institute of Geology
Contact	Jana Popelková, popelkova@gli.cas.cz, Sabina Janíčková, Tel.: 233 087 272
Year of Publishing	2011

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