Lower Pleistocene Palynomorphs from the Ohuka Carbonaceous Sandstone, South-West Auckland, New Zealand
- 1 September 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
- Vol. 18 (5) , 675-681
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1975.10421568
Abstract
Basal Hautawan pollen samples from the Ohuka Carbonaceous Sandstone contain pollen referable to Acacia and ?Eucalyplus, which indicates that floral change near the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary may have been caused more by a decrease in effective precipitation than by decreasing temperatures. This desiccation may have been wind induced.Keywords
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