Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 753591537X
Published on: 1995-08
Hardcover
This book summarizes the principal achievements of paleobotanical study since the middle half of the nineteenth century, especially during the forty-odd years after the founding of new China in 1949. The whole text comprises 12 chapters. Taking geological times as the linking line, this book discusses in separate chapters the overall features and evolutionary history of floras in different geological periods ranging from Silurian to Quaternary, with particular emphasis laid on the systematic analysis and summary of composition, nature, characteristics and correlation division, evolution and phytogeogra- pphical provinciality of those floras (based on megafossil plants supplemented partly with fossil sporo-pollen evidence) in different period, together with a certain number of palaeobotanical studies displaying the distinguishing features of China
Fossil flora of China through the Geological Ages
