W.C. Elsik's scientific contributions

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... − 88.7, − 88.4, and − 88) contain several Eocene indicators including Intratriporopollenties instructus, Platycarya platycaryoides, P. swasticoidus and Striatopollis spp., and these samples have low percentages of Caryapollenites and Momipites pollen, similar to PETM sections elsewhere (e.g., Sluijs et al., 2014). Intratriporopollenites instructus and P. swasticoidus are recorded for the first time in the Eocene of the U.S. Gulf Coast (Elsik, 1974;Frederiksen, 1980;Harrington, 2003). However, these same samples contain low to moderate abundances of palm pollen (0-7.5%) and roughly equal abundances of gymnosperm and dicotyledonous angiosperm pollen types (Table 2), a pattern not seen in the PETM section in the Harrell Core . ...