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The Microfloral Assemblages—Their Environmental and Climatic Interpretation

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The questions arising from the systematic work of this study are: What do the pollen and spores tell us? How significant are the sometime subtle changes in pollen/spore assemblages?

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Glikson-Simpson, M. (2020). The Microfloral Assemblages—Their Environmental and Climatic Interpretation. In: Coal—A Window to Past Climate and Vegetation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44472-3_3

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