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PUBLICATIONS

[18] Cramwinckel, M.J., Burls, N.J., Fahad, A.A., Knapp, S., West, C.K., Reichgelt, T., et al. 2023. Global and zonal-mean hydrological response to early Eocene warmth. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, e2022PA004542.

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[17] Kalyniuk, J.E., West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R., Basinger, J.F., Brown, C.M. 2023. The Albian vegetation of central Alberta as a food source for the nodosaurid Borealopelta markmitchelli. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 611, 111356, 16 pp.

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[16] Lowe, A.J., Diefendorf, A.F., Schlanser, K.M., Super, J., West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R. 2022. Dynamics of deposition and fossil preservation at the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of British Columbia: insights from organic geochemistry. Palaios, 37(5), 185-200.

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[15] Greenwood, D.R., Conran, J.G., West, C.K. 2022. Palm fronds from western Canada are the northernmost palms from the Late Cretaceous of North America and may include the oldest Arecaceae. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 302: 104641, 20 pp.

 

[14] Reinhardt, L., von Gosen, W., Lückge, A., Blumenberg, M., Galloway, J. M., West, C.K., Sudermann, M., and Dolezych, M. 2022. Geochemical indications for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM-2) hyperthermals in terrestrial sediments of the Canadian Arctic. Geosphere, 18: 327–349

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[13] West, C.K., Reichgelt, T. and Basinger, J.F. 2021. The Ravenscrag Butte flora: Paleoclimate and paleoecology of an early Paleocene (Danian) warm-temperate deciduous forest near the vanishing inland Cannonball Seaway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 576: 110488, 14 pp.

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[12] Sudermann M., Galloway J.M., Greenwood D.R., West C.K., and Reinhardt L. 2021. Palynostratigraphy of the lower Paleogene Margaret Formation at Stenkul Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Palynology, 45: 459-476.

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[11] Greenwood, D. R., West, C. K., Basinger, J. F. 2020. The Miocene Red Lake macroflora of the Deadman River Formation (Chilcotin Group), Interior Plateau, British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeobotanica, 60: 213–250.

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[10West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R., Reichgelt, T., Lowe, A.J., Vachon, J.M., and Basinger, J.F. 2020. Paleobotanical proxies for early Eocene climates and ecosystems in northern North America from mid to high latitudes. Climate of the Past, 4: 1387–1410.

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[9] Schlanser, K.M., Diefendorf, A.F., West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R., Basinger, J.F., Meyer, H.W., Lowe, A.J. and Naake, H.H., 2020. Conifers are a major source of sedimentary leaf wax n-alkanes when dominant in the landscape: Case studies from the Paleogene. Organic Geochemistry, 147: 104069, 17 pp.

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[8] Schlanser, K., Diefendorf, A.F., Greenwood, D.R., Mueller, K.E., West, C.K., Lowe, A.J., Basinger, J.F., Currano, E.D., Flynn, A.G., Fricke, H.C., Geng, J., Meyer, H.W., Peppe, D.J. 2020. On geologic timescales, plant carbon isotope fractionation responds to precipitation similarly to modern plants and has a small negative correlation with pCO2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270: 264-281.

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[7] West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R., Basinger, J.F. 2019. The late Paleocene and early Eocene Arctic megaflora of Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands, Nunavut, Canada. Palaeontographica Abt. B, 300: 47–163.

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[6] Lowe, A.J., Greenwood, D.R., West, C.K., Galloway, J.M., Sudermann, M. and Reichgelt, T., 2018. Plant community ecology and climate on an upland volcanic landscape during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: McAbee Fossil Beds, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 511: 433-448.

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[5] Lowe A.J., West C.K., and Greenwood D.R. 2018. Volcaniclastic lithostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the lower Eocene McAbee fossil beds, Kamloops Group, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55: 923-934.

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[4] Reichgelt T., West C.K., and Greenwood D.R. 2018. The relation between global palm distribution and climate. Scientific Reports, 8: 4721.

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[3] Greenwood, D.R. and West, C.K., 2017. A fossil coryphoid palm from the Paleocene of western Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 239: 55-65.

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[2] Gushulak C.A.C., West C.K., and Greenwood, D.R. 2016. Paleoclimate and seasonality of the Early Eocene McAbee megaflora, Kamloops Group, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53: 591-601.

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[1] West, C.K., Greenwood, D.R., and Basinger, J.F. 2015, Was the Arctic Eocene ‘rainforest’ monsoonal? Estimates of seasonal precipitation from early Eocene macrofloras from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 427: 18-30.

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