Oligo-Miocene peatland ecosystems of the Gippsland Basin and modern analogues

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AGL Loy Yang and GHD are gratefully acknowledged for enabling the sampling of the M1B seam from the Loy Yang Open Cut Mine. We would particularly like to thank Ben Jansen (GHD) for facilitating our visits to the Loy Yang Open Cut Mine and to Dr. Michael Shawn-Fletcher (University of Melbourne) for his assistance in developing methods used for palynological processing. We are also grateful to Professor Joan Esterle and Dr. Tim Moore for constructive and helpful comments on the manuscript. An Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship is supporting V. A. Korasidis.