Geobotany

ISBN-13: 9781475716764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str.

Robert Romans

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The papers in this volume were presented at the Geobotany Conference held at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, on 21 February 1976. Though such diverse topics as anthropology and paleobotany are covered, all papers utilized the concept of geobotany as a unifying theme. Nearly a decade ago, the first in this series of geobotany conferences was organized on this campus by Dr. Jane Forsyth of the Department of Geology. After considerable growth, culminating in an International Geobotany Conference at the University of Tennessee in 1973, it was decided to again organize a regional geobotany meeting. The melange of papers in this volume are products of that meeting. Geobotany, by definition, is an interdiscip1inarian approach to interpretational problems involving such investigators as geologists and botanists, archaeologists and stratigraphers, ecologists and pa1yno1ogists. Interaction among these individuals is necessary for the satisfactory solution of a problem. Each can provide invaluable assistance to the other. The purpose of the meeting in Bowling Green was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. Sponsors of the conference include the Department of Biological Sciences, the Department of Geology, the Environmental Studies Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School. All of the sponsors are academic or administrative units of Bowling Green State University and each played an important role in the success of the conference.

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Late Pleistocene and Postglacial Plant Communities of the Great Lakes Region.- Limiting Factors in Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction.- Taxonomic and Stratigraphic Significance of the Dispersed Spore Genus Calamospora.- Depositional and Floristic Interpretations of a Pollen Diagram from Middle Eocene, Claiborne Formation, Upper Mississippi Embayment.- Toward an Understanding of the Reproductive Biology of Fossil Plants.- A Geobotanical Overview of the Bryophyta.- Modern and Paleocene Metasequoias: A Comparison of Foliage Morphology.- A Middle Pennsylvanian Nodule Flora from Carterville, Illinois.- Paleobotanical and Geological Interpretations of Paleoenvironments of the Eastern Interior Basin.- Preliminary Investigation of Two Late Triassic Conifers from York County, Pennsylvania.- North American Primitive Paleozoic Charophytes and Descendents.- Calcification of Filaments of Boring and Cavity-Dwelling Algae, and the Construction of Micrite Envelopes.- An Agricultural Revolution in the Lower Great Lakes.- The Place of the Amerindian in the Origin of the Southern Appalachian Grass Balds.- Suspended Sediment and Plankton Relationships in Maumee River and Maumee Bay of Lake Erie.- The Return of Aquatic Vascular Plants into the Great Lakes Region after Late-Wisconsin Glaciation.