Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene leaf £oras in the northwest of the South Island, New Zealand

• Main Authors: Elizabeth M. Kennedy A, Robert A. Spicer B, Peter M. Rees C
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: palaeoclimate; New Zealand; Late Cretaceous; leaf physiognomy; Paleocene; Antarctic; Pillar; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.603.5100; http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/2002-2.pdf

Three new plant macrofossil assemblages were collected from Late Cretaceous and Paleocene fluvio-lacustrine sediments of the Pakawau and Kapuni groups in the northwest of the South Island, New Zealand. Palaeoenvironmental interpretations were made from each locality and palaeoclimate was deduced fro...