Plant Fossils of the British Coal Measures (Field Guide to Fossils)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: May 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780901702531
Subjects: Palaeobotany; Prehistoric archaeology; Science; Science/Mathematics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Earth Sciences - Geology; Paleontology; Power Resources; COAL_GREAT BRITAIN; GEOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHIC_CARBONIFEROUS; PALEOBOTANY; Technology / Power Resources
First sentence: Physical environment During the Late Carboniferous, much of Britain was part of the foreland (used here in its traditional sense-e.g.Krause and Pilger 1977) of the Variscan orogenic belt that resulted from the collision between the Gondwana and Laurasia continental masses.