Don’t mind the “charcoal gap”: A reassessment of Devonian wildfire

Little evidence of macrofossil charcoal, a wildfire proxy, is recorded from upper Lower to lowermost Upper Devonian rocks. Coals of this age are few, and petrographic data indicate low volumes (16% and remained at such levels from the Silurian through the floral and faunal colonization of land and,...

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Published in:Geology (Boulder) 2024-11, Vol.52 (11), p.846-850
Main Authors: Glasspool, Ian J., Gastaldo, Robert A.
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