DiMichele, William A.; Nelson, W. John; Elrick, Scott; Ames, Philip R.(2009)
A catastrophically buried stand of calamitean sphenopsids and sigillarian lycopsids is reported from the Middle Pennsylvanian of southwestern Indiana, in the Illinois Basin. The plants were exposed in the highwall of a ...
Nelson, W. John; Elrick, Scott D.; DiMichele, William A.; Ames, Philip R.(2020)
For more than 40 years, geologists have understood that the thickness and quality of the Springfield Coal are intimately related to the Galatia channel, a paleochannel that existed contemporaneously with peat deposition. ...
Falcon-Lang, Howard J.; Nelson, W. John; Elrick, Scott; Looy, Cindy V.; Ames, Philip R.; DiMichele, William A.(2009)
The idea that the Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands were temporally dominated by rainforest (i.e., the Coal Forest) is deeply ingrained in the literature. Here we challenge two centuries of research by suggesting that this ...
