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... Relationships of Climatic Patterns to Vegetational Patterns The landscape-level breakpoint boundaries detected in Late Carboniferous coal swamps correspond closely to times of inferred climatic change during the Westphalian and Stephanian (DiMichele et al., 19861. In eastern North America, comparison of three Pennsylvanian climatic scenarios with points of vegetational reorganization is illusbated in Figure 8.10.
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  • coal swamps
  • late paleozoic
  • carboniferous coal
  • inferred climatic

  • pennsylvanian coal


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