Cretaceous fire in Australia: A review with new geochemical evidence, and relevance to the rise of the angiosperms

Much of the Australian flora has high flammability. It is therefore of interest whether burning was a feature in the Cretaceous, the geological period in which angiosperms rose to dominance, and in which fossil and molecular evidence suggests the presence of lineages now prominent in regularly burnt...

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Main Authors: Carpenter, R., Holman, A., Abell, A., Grice, Kliti
Format: Journal Article
Published: CSIRO Publishing 2016
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130100577
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50700