A tribute to Douglas James Nichols, Palynologist, 1942–2010

Selected bibliography of Douglas J. Nichols (excluding abstracts)

• Beerling , DJ , Lomax , BH , Upchurch , GR Jr , Nichols , DJ , Pillmore , CL , Handley , LL and Scrimgeour , CM. 2001 . Evidence for the recovery of terrestrial ecosystems ahead of marine primary production following a biotic crisis at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary . Journal of the Geological Society, London , 158 : 737 – 740 .
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• Bercovici , A , Pearson , D , Nichols , DJ and Wood , J. 2009 . Biostratigraphy of selected K/T boundary sections in southwestern North Dakota, USA: toward a refinement of palynological identification criteria . Cretaceous Research , 30 : 632 – 658 .
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• Bohor , BF , Triplehorn , DM , Nichols , DJ and Millard , HT. 1987 . Dinosaurs, spherules and the ‘magic layer’; a new K-T boundary clay site in Wyoming . . Geology , 15 : 896 – 899 .
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• Bryant , B , Nichols , DJ and Cobban , WA. 1982 . Late Cretaceous orogenic pulses in north-central Utah, in Geological Survey research 1982 . U.S. Geological Professional Paper 1375 , : 57
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• Dyman , TS and Nichols , DJ. 1988 . Stratigraphy of the mid-Cretaceous Blackleaf and lower part of the Frontier Formations in parts of Beaverhead and Madison Counties, Montana . U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1773 , : 31
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• Dyman , TS , Perry Jr , WJ and Nichols , DJ. 1988 . Stratigraphy, petrology, and provenance of the Albian Blackleaf Formation and the Cenomanian to Turonian lower part of the Frontier Formation in parts of Beaverhead and Madison Counties, Montana . The Mountain Geologist , : 113 – 128 .
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• Dyman , TS , Tysdal , RG , Perry , WG , Obradovich , JD , Haley , JC and Nichols , DJ. 1997 . Correlation of UpperCretaceous strata from Lima Peaks area to Madison Range, southwestern Montana and southeastern Idaho, USA . Cretaceous Research , : 751 – 766 .
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• Dyman , TS , Tysdal , RG , Perry , WJ Jr , Nichols , DJ and Obradovich , JD. 2008 . Stratigraphy and structural setting of Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation, western Centennial Mountains, southwestern Montana and southeastern Idaho . Cretaceous Research , : 237 – 248 .
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• Fleming , RF and Nichols , DJ. 1994 . “ Multivariate analyses of palynomorph data as a key to depositional environments of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene coal-bearing rocks of the western United States ” . In Sedimentation of organic particles , Edited by: Traverse , Alfred . 445 – 460 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
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• Flores , RM , Keighin , CW and Nichols , DJ. 1992 . “ Sedimentology, conglomerate petrology, and palynostratigraphy of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene), Castle Gardens, Wind River basin, Wyoming ” . In Road log volume for rediscover the rockies , Edited by: Sundell , KA and Anderson , TC . 21–27 – 57–60 . Casper , (WY) : Wyoming Geological Association .
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• Franczyk , KJ , Pitman , JK and Nichols , DJ. 1990 . Sedimentology, mineralogy, palynology, and depositional history of some uppermost Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary rocks along the Utah Book and Roan Cliffs east of the Green River . U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787-N , 27 : 3
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• Frederiksen , NO , Evitt , WR , Gensel , PG , Hedlund , RW , Markgraf , V , Nichols , DJ and Staplin , FL. 1982 . The future of palynology . Palynology , 6 : 1 – 7 .
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• Garrison , JR , Brinkman , D , Nichols , D , Layer , P , Burge , D and Thayn , D. 2007 . A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, Utah: a determination of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Eolambia caroljonesa dinosaur quarry . Cretaceous Research , 28 : 461 – 494 .
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• Harries , PJ , Johnson , KR , Cobban , WA and Nichols , DJ. 2002 . Marine Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary section in southwestern South Dakota: Comment and Reply . Geology , : 954 – 956 .
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• Hartman , JH , Johnson , KR and Nichols , DJ. 2002 . “ Preface ” . In The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains—An integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361 Edited by: Hartman Johnson , JH , Nichols , KR and , , DJ . v – vi .
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• Hicks , JF , Brinkman , DL , Nichols , DJ and Watabe , M. 1999 . Paleomagnetic and palynologic analyses of Albian to Santonian strata at Bayn Shireh, Burkhant, and Khuren Dukh, eastern Gobi Desert, Mongolia . Cretaceous Research , : 829 – 850 .
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• Ito , M , Matsukawa , M , Saito , T and Nichols , DJ. 2006 . Facies architecture and paleohydrology of a synrift succession in the Early Cretaceous Choyr Basin, southeastern Mongolia . Cretaceous Research , : 226 – 240 .
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• Jacobson , SR and Nichols , DJ. 1982 [1983] . “ Palynological dating of syntectonic units in the Utah-Wyoming thrust belt; the Evanston Formation, Echo Canyon Conglomerate, and Little Muddy Creek conglomerate ” . In Geologic studies of the Cordilleran thrust belt , Edited by: Powers , RB . 735 – 750 . Denver (CO) : Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists .
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• Jarzen , DM and Nichols , DJ. 1996 . “ Pollen, Chapter 9 ” . In Palynology; Principles and Applications , Edited by: Jansonius , J and McGregor , DC . 261 – 291 . Vol. 1. Dallas (TX) : American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists. p .
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• Johnson , KR , Nichols , DJ , Attrep , M and Orth , CJ. 1989 . High-resolution leaf-fossil record spanning the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary . Nature (London) , 340 : 708 – 711 .
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• Johnson , KR , Nichols , DJ and Hartman , JH. 2002 . “ The Hell Creek Formation—A 2001 synthesis ” . In The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains—an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361 Edited by: Hartman , JH , Johnson , KR and Nichols , DJ . 503 – 510 .
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• Lindsey , DA , Glanzman , RK , Naeser , CW and Nichols , DJ. 1981 . Upper Oligocene evaporites in basin fill of SevierDesert region, western Utah . American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin , : 251 – 260 .
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• Matsukawa , M , Ito , M , Nishida , N , Koarai , K , Lockley , MG and Nichols , DJ. 2006 . The Cretaceous Tetori biotaand its evolutionary significance for terrestrial ecosystems in Asia . Cretaceous Research , : 199 – 225 .
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• Matsukawa , M , Saiki , K , Ito , M , Obata , L , Nichols , DJ , Lockley , MG , Kukihara , R and Shibata , K. 2006 . Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia based on food-web and energy-flow models . Cretaceous Research , : 285 – 307 .
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• Murphy , EC , Nichols , DJ , Hoganson , JW and Forsman , NF. 1995 . The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in south-central North Dakota . North Dakota Geological Survey Report of Investigation No. 98 , : 74
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• Nichols , DJ. 1966 . Paleoecological analysis of the Merchantville Formation (Upper Cretaceous) in the New Jersey coastal plain unpublished MS thesis]. New York University, 192 p., 10 pls
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• Nichols , DJ. 1970 . Palynology in relation to depositional environments of lignite in the Wilcox Group (early Tertiary) in Texas [unpublished Ph.D. dissertation]. The Pennsylvania State University, 467 p., 47 pls
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• Nichols , DJ. 1973 . North American and European species ofMomipites (‘Engelhardtia’) and related genera . Geoscience and Man , : 103 – 117 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1987 . “ Palynology of the Vermillion Creek coal bed and associated strata ” . In Geological investigations of the Vermillion Creek coal bed in the Eocene Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation , Edited by: Roehler , HW and Martin , PL . 47 – 73 . U.S.Geological Survey Professional Paper 1314-D .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1990 . Geologic and biostratigraphic framework of the non-marine Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in western North America . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology , : 75 – 84 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1992 . “ Review of Mass extinctions—processes and evidence ” . In Cretaceous Research Edited by: Donovan , SK, . 379 – 384 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1994 . “ A revised palynostratigraphic zonation ofthe nonmarine Upper Cretaceous, Rocky Mountain region, United States ” . In Mesozoic systems of the Rocky Mountain region, USA , Edited by: Caputo , MV , Peterson , JA and Franczyk , KJ . 503 – 521 . Denver (CO) : Rocky Mountain Section SEPM .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1994 . “ Palynostratigraphic correlation of Paleocene rocks in the Wind River, Bighorn, and Powder River basins, Wyoming ” . In Organics and the Rockies Field Guide: Wyoming State Geological Survey Public Information Circular No. 33 Edited by: Flores , RM , Mehring , KT , Jones , RW and Beck , TL . 17 – 29 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1995 . “ Palynostratigraphy in relation to sequence stratigraphy, Straight Cliffs Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah ” . In Sedimentologic andstratigraphic investigations of coal-bearing strata inthe Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau , 1 U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2115-B .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1995 . The role of palynology in paleoecological analyses of Tertiary coals . International Journal of Coal Geology , : 139 – 159 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1996 . “ Vegetational history in Western Interior North America during the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition, Chapter 29D ” . In Palynology; Principles and Applications , Edited by: In Jansonius , J and McGregor , DC . 1189 – 1195 . Dallas (TX) : American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1997 . “ Palynology and ages of some Upper Cretaceous formations in the Markagunt and northwestern Kaiparowits Plateaus, southwestern Utah ” . In Geologic studies in the Basin and Range-Colorado Plateau transition in southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and northwestern Arizona, 1995. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2153 Edited by: Maldonado , F and Nealey , LD . 79 – 105 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 1997 . Surf and turf in depth—retrospectives on the North American Cretaceous seaway . Cretaceous Research , 18 : 621 – 623 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2002 . “ Palynology and palynostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota—a microfossil record of plants at the end of Cretaceous time ” . In The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains—an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361 Edited by: Hartman , JH , Johnson , KR and Nichols , DJ . 391 – 454 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2003 . Biodiversity changes in Cretaceous palynofloras of eastern Asia and western North America . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences , 21 : 823 – 833 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2003 . “ Palynostratigraphic framework for age determination and correlation of the nonmarine lower Cenozoic of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region ” . In Cenozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region , Edited by: Raynolds , RG and Flores , RM . 107 – 134 . Denver (CO) : Rocky Mountain Section of theSociety for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2005 . “ Palynology in coal systems analysis—the key to floras, climate, and stratigraphy of coal-forming environments ” . In Coal systems analysis. Geological Society of America Special Paper 387 Edited by: Warwick , PD . 51 – 58 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2005 . The K-T boundary at Sussex, Wyoming—evidence for a major extinction event revisited . Tate 2005, 11th Annual Symposium in Paleontology and Geology , : 40 – 60 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2007 . Selected plant-microfossil records of the terminal Cretaceous event in terrestrial rocks, western North America . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 255 : 22 – 34 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2009 . On the palynomorph-based biozones inPaleogene strata of Rocky Mountain basins . The Mountain Geologist , : 105 – 124 .
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• Nichols , DJ. 2010 . Reevaluation of the holotypes of the Wodehouse pollen species from the Green River Formation (Eocene . Colorado and Utah American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contributions Series No. 44 , 97 : 21 pl., 11 figs
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• Nichols , DJ and Brown , J.L. 1992 . Palynostratigraphy of the Tullock Member (lower Paleocene) of the Fort Union Formation in the Powder River basin, Montana and Wyoming . U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1917-F , 35 : 10
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• Brown , DJ and Nichols , JL . 1994 . “ The K-T boundary at Sussex, Wyoming—evidence for a major extinction event at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs ” . In The dinosaurs of Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association 44th Annual Field Conference Guidebook Edited by: Nelson , GE . 85 – 100 .
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• Nichols , Hickey , DJ , McWeeney , LJ , Wolfe , LJ and JA. 1992 . Plants at the K/T boundary; discussion and reply . Nature (London) , : 295 – 296 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Ames , HT and Traverse , A. 1973 . On Arecipites Wodehouse, Monocolpopollenites Thomson and Pflug, and the species Monocolpopollenites tranquillus . Taxon , : 241 – 256 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Brown , JL , Attrep , M Jr and Orth , CJ. 1992 . Anew Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary locality in the western Powder River Basin, Wyoming; biological and geological implications . Cretaceous Research , : 3 – 30 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Fleming , RF. Plant microfossil record of the terminal Cretaceous event in the western United States and Canada . Global catastrophes in Earth history; an interdisciplinary conference on impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality. Geological Society of America Special Paper 247 . Edited by: Sharpton , VL and Ward , PD . pp. 445 – 455 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Fleming , RF. 2002 . Palynology and palynostratigraphy of Maastrichtian, Paleocene, and Eocene strata in the Denver Basin , 135 – 163 . Colorado : Rocky Mountain Geology .
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• Nichols , DJ and Flores , RM. 1993 . “ Palynostratigraphic correlation of the Fort Union Formation (Paleocene) in the Wind River Reservation and Waltman area, Wind River Basin, Wyoming ” . In Oil and gas resources of the Wind River Basin , Edited by: Keefer , WR , Metzger , WJ and Godwin , LH . 175 – 189 . Wyoming : Wyoming Geological Association Special Symposium .
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• Nichols , DJ and Flores , RM. 2006 . A new reference section for palynostratigraphic zonation of Paleocene rocks in the Rocky Mountain region . The Mountain Geologist , 43 : 299 – 312 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Jacobson , SR. 1982a . Cretaceous biostratigraphy in the Wyoming thrust belt . The Mountain Geologist , : 73 – 78 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Jacobson , SR. 1982b . Palynostratigraphic framework for the Cretaceous (Albian-Maestrichtian) of the overthrust belt of Utah and Wyoming . Palynology , 6 : 119 – 147 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Jacobson , SR and Tschudy , RH. 1982 [1983] . “ Cretaceous palynomorph biozones for the central and northern Rocky Mountain region of the United States ” . In Geologic studies of the Cordilleran thrust belt , Edited by: Powers , RB . 721 – 733 . Vol. 2. Denver , (CO) : Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. p . pl. 1
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• Nichols , DJ , Jarzen , DM , Orth , CJ and Oliver , PQ. 1986 . Palynological and iridium anomalies at Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, south-central Saskatchewan . Science , 231 : 714 – 717 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Johnson , KR. 2002 . “ Palynology and microstratigraphy of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sections in southwestern North Dakota ” . In The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains—an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361 Edited by: Hartman , In , Johnson , JH , Nichols , KR and , , DJ . 95 – 143 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Johnson , KR. 2008 . Plants and the K-Tboundary , 280 New York : Cambridge University Press .
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• Nichols , DJ , Matsukawa , M and Ito , M. 2006 . Palynology and age of some Cretaceous nonmarine deposits in Mongolia and China . Cretaceous Research , 27 : 241 – 251 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Ott , HL. 1978 . Biostratigraphy and evolution of the Momipites-Caryapollenites lineage in the early Tertiary in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming . Palynology , : 93 – 112 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Ott , HL. 2006 . Neotypes for Paleocene species in the Momipites-Caryapollenites pollen lineage . Palynology , 30 : 33 – 41 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Perry Jr , WJ and Haley , JC. 1985 . Reinterpretation of the palynology and age of Laramide syntectonic deposits, southwestern Montana, and revision of the Beaverhead Group . Geology , 13 : 149 – 153 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Pocknall , DT and Flores , RM. 1996 . Geology and palynology of Wyoming: Field Trip Guidebook, Ninth International Palynological Congress . Field Trip , A2 : 44
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• Nichols , DJ and Pocknall , DT. 1994 . Relationships of palynofacies to coal-depositional environments in the upper Paleocene of the Gulf Coast Basin, Texas, and the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming Sedimentation of organic particles , Edited by: Traverse A . 217 – 237 . Cambridge , , (UK): : Cambridge University Press .
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• Nichols , DJ and Stewart , RA. 1971 . Aberrant pollen from the Wilcox Group (early Tertiary) in the Gulf Coast, U.S.A . Pollen et Spores , 13 (1) : 149 – 161 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Traverse , A. 1971 . Palynology, petrology, and depositional environments of some early Tertiary lignites in Texas . Geoscience and Man , 3 : 37 – 48 .
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• Nichols , DJ and Warner , MW. 1978 . Palynology, age, and correlation of the Wanship Formation and their implications for the tectonic history of northeastern Utah . Geology , 6 : 430 – 433 .
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• Nichols , DJ , Watabe , M , Ichinnorov , N and Ariunchimeg , Y. Preliminary report on the palynology of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia . Proceedings of the IX International Palynological Congress, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1996 . Edited by: Goodman , DK and Clarke , RT . pp. 131 – 138 . Dallas (TX) : American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation .
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• Nichols , DJ , Wolfe , JA and Pocknall , DT. 1988 . “ Latest Cretaceous and early Tertiary history of vegetation in the Powder River basin, Montana and Wyoming ” . In Geological Society of America 1888-1988 Centennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado, Field Trip Guidebook 1988, Colorado School of Mines Professional Contributions, No. 12 Edited by: Holden , GS . 205–210 – 222–226 . (Reprinted in Tertiary and Cretaceous coals in the Rocky Mountains region, 28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T132. p. 28–33, 57–60, 1989)
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• Pearson , DA , Schaefer , T , Johnson , KR and Nichols , DJ. 2001 . Palynologically calibrated vertebrate record from North Dakota consistent with abrupt dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary . Geology , 29 : 39 – 42 .
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• Pearson , DA , Schaefer , T , Johnson , KR , Nichols , DJ and Hunter , JP. 2002 . “ Vertebrate biostratigraphy of theHell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota ” . In The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains—an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361 Edited by: Hartman , JH , Johnson , KR and Nichols , DJ . 145 – 167 .
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• Perry , WJ Jr , Ryder , RT , Maughan , EK , Kulik , DM , Nichols , DJ and Peterman , ZE. 1982 . New structural interpretation as an aid to petroleum exploration of Snowcrest Range area, southwestern Montana . U.S. Geological Professional Paper 1375 , : 27
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• Pillmore , CL , Fleming , RF and Nichols , DJ. Field guide to the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Raton basin . Colorado and New Mexico: 3rd International IGCP-IPA Conference on Global Bio-Events, Boulder, Colorado . pp. 44
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• Pillmore , CL , Nichols , DJ and Fleming , RF. 1999 . “ Field guide to the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico ” . In Colorado and adjacent areas , Edited by: Lageson , DR , Lester , AP and Trudgill , BD . 135 – 155 . Boulder (CO) : Geological Society of America Field Guide 1 .
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• Pitman , JK , Anders , DE , Fouch , TD and Nichols , DJ. 1986 . “ Hydrocarbon potential of nonmarine Upper Cretaceous and lower Tertiary rocks, eastern Uinta basin, Utah ” . In Geology of tight gas reservoirs , Edited by: Spencer , CW and Mast , RF . 235 – 252 . American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology .
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• Pocknall , DT and Nichols , DJ. 1996 . Palynology of coal zones of the Tongue River Member (upper Paleocene) of the Fort Union Formation, Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming . American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contributions Series, No. 32 , 58 : 7
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• Spicer , RA , Wolfe , JA and Nichols , DJ. 1987 . Alaskan Cretaceous-Tertiary floras and Arctic origins . Paleobiology , 13 (1) : 73 – 83 .
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• Sun , G , Akhmetiev , M , Ashraf , AR , Sun , YW , Dong , ZM , Bugdaeva , E , Markevich , V , Kezina , T , Kodrul , T , Johnson , K , Nichols , DJ , Nishida , H , Okada , H , Sun , CL , Suzuki , S , Dilcher , DL , Lu , JS , Luo , KL , Bolotsky , Y , Hicks , J , Yang , HX , Harding , I and Quan , C. Recent advance on the research of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Jiayin of Heilongjiang, China . Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Cretaceous Biota and the K/T Boundary in the Heilongjiang River Area, China, 2004 . pp. 1 – 6 .
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• Tysdal , RG , Dyman , TS and Nichols , DJ. 1989 . Correlation chart of Lower Cretaceous rocks, Madison Range to Lima Peaks area, southwestern Montana . U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Investigations Map MF-2067 , 1 sheet : 16
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• Tysdal , RG , Nichols , DJ and Winkler , GR. 1987 . The Livingston Formation in the Madison Range of southwestern Montana . U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1665 , : 15
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• Young , RA , Brennan , WJ , Wolfe , RW and Nichols , DJ. 1973b . Volcanism in the lunar maria: Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report . NASA SP 330 , : 31-1 – 31-11 .
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