Fossil Plants and Coal: Patterns of Change in Pennsylvanian Coal Swamps of the Illinois Basin

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• Publication year

  1974

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1974-06-28

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.184.4144.1367PMID 17810464
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