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Permo-Carboniferous palynology of Gondwanaland: progress and problems in the decade to 1980

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The decade 1970-80 has seen the emergence of new regional, palynologically based biostratigraphic schemes, or the modification of existing ones, from late Carboniferous through Permian sequences on the major, now dispersed continents of Gondwanaland. Schemes comprising loosely defined assemblage zones and/or interval zones have been published for eastern and western Australia, Antarctica, India, south, east and west Africa, and South America. Inter-regional correlation based on these zones is for the most part of a broad kind, but the beginnings of a widely applicable chronostratigraphy are discernible, and relatively high-resolution correlation is possible between selected intervals in Australia, India and southern Africa. During the decade there has been some emphasis on the palynology of late Palaeozoic glacial deposits, with data becoming available from all major continents. These data do not support the idea of a sequential migration of glacial centres across Gondwanaland. Information has also become available concerning the palynology of sediments transitional between the Permian intervals of coal measure sedimentation and the overlying red-bed sequences; palynological data suggest that the Permian-Triassic boundary lies well above the youngest coal measures, at least in India and eastern Australia. Palynological information accumulated during the decade points also to the existence of phytogeographic subprovinces within the Glossopteris-dominated Permian vegetation of Gondwanaland.

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Title Permo-Carboniferous palynology of Gondwanaland: progress and problems in the decade to 1980
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/5354e931-3c05-4974-8a7a-dc745bc20306
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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