Cainozoic Vegetation of Tasmania: Handbook Prepared for 7[th] International Palynological Congress, 28 August - 3 September 1988 : Excursion LB2 |
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abundant alpine altitude asperus Zone Astelia ASTELIA ALPINA Asteraceae Atherosperma BANKSIA Basin BAUERA Beatties Tarn Casuarina Central Plateau CHENOPODIACEAE climate Colhoun Compositae cont Cookson Cyathea CYPERACEAE Darwin Crater deposits DICKSONIA ANTARCTICA dolerite dominated DUBLIN BOG Eagle Tarn Epacridaceae Eucalyptus Eucryphia EXCLUDED FROM POLLEN FERN SPORES Gramineae gravels heath HERBS HISTIOPTERIS Holocene indicate interglacial Isoëtes Kirkpatrick Lagaros Lagarostrobos Langdon River Last Glaciation Launceston Leptospermum lowland LYCOPODIUM Macphail MELALEUCA meromictic MICROCACHRYS Microstrobos MONOLETE MONOTOCA MOSCHATUM NIPHOPHILUS NORTHERN TASMANIA NOTHOF Nothofagidites Nothofagus and Phyllocladus Nothofagus cunninghamii Nothofagus gunnii NUMBER occur ORITES Partridge 1973 peak peat PHYLLOCLADUS ASPLENIIFOLIUS PLANTAGO Pleistocene pollen assemblages POLLEN SUM Pollen Zone Pomaderris Pomaderris apetala Quaternary RESTIONACEAE sands sclerophyll scrub sediments sequence SMALL TREES Smelter Creek soil species Sphagnum Stanley River Stover STRATIGRAPHY Subzone Tarn Shelf taxa temperate rainforest Tertiary TREES & SHRUBS TRILETE trobos TYPE understorey Valley vegetation western Tasmania wet sclerophyll forest yr BP