Publisher's Synopsis
The seventh International Palynological Congress was held in Brisbane, Australia, from 29th August to 3rd September, 1988. Both the Congress and the papers compiled here show palynology to be a discipline striking in its breadth, characterised by a diversity of content, methodology and application. The breadth spans important applications in medicine, in evolutionary biology and taxonomy, in ecology, in stratigraphy and sedimentology, in oil exploration and recovery, in paleoclimatology and even in the highly practical forensic science. Within the fields themselves there is clearly an increasing depth of understanding as well as breadth of compass.
