A fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a disturbance-prone Pennsylvanian wetland
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Published:January 01, 2006
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John H. Calder, Martin R. Gibling, Andrew C. Scott, Sarah J. Davies, Brian L. Hebert, 2006. "A fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a disturbance-prone Pennsylvanian wetland", Wetlands through Time, Stephen F. Greb, William A. DiMichele
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Standing lycopsid trees occur at 60 or more horizons within the 1425-m-thick coal-bearing interval of the classic Carboniferous section at Joggins, with one of the most consistently productive intervals occurring between Coals 29 (Fundy seam) and 32 of Logan (1845). Erect lepidodendrid trees, invariably rooted within an organic-rich substrate, are best preserved when entombed by heterolithic sandstone/mudstone units on the order of 3–4 m thick, inferred to represent the recurring overtopping of distributary channels of similar thickness. The setting of these forests and associated sediments is interpreted as a disturbance-prone interdistributary wetland system. The heterogeneity and disturbance inherent to...
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GeoRef
- Atlantic Ocean
- Bay of Fundy
- biostratigraphy
- Canada
- Carboniferous
- coal
- Eastern Canada
- forests
- lithostratigraphy
- Lycopsida
- Maritime Provinces
- North Atlantic
- Nova Scotia
- paleobotany
- paleoecology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleozoic
- paludal environment
- Pennsylvanian
- Plantae
- Pteridophyta
- sedimentary rocks
- species diversity
- stratigraphic units
- succession
- terrestrial environment
- wetlands
- Joggins Nova Scotia