Mid Paleocene fossil floras and climate from western Scotland

• Main Author: Poulter, Jonathan James
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Leeds 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Mull; Svalbard; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21124/; https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21124/1/574594.pdf

Fossil plants of Paleocene age (62 to 59.7 Ma) are preserved within lava sequences in the Hebrides and Northern Ireland. These lavas, collectively referred to as the British Tertiary Volcanic Group (BTVP), were formed due to rifting in the North Atlantic. The fossil floras represent forests that gre...