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Download or read book Paleocene Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains written by Roland Wilbur Brown and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of 170 kinds of plants and the strata that yield them, showing how they apply in the delimination of the Paleocene series.

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