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Revising evidence of hurricane strikes on Abaco Island (The Bahamas) over the last 700 years.


ABSTRACT: The northern Bahamas have experienced more frequent intense-hurricane impacts than almost anywhere else in the Atlantic since 1850 CE. In 2019, category 5 (Saffir-Simpson scale) Hurricane Dorian demonstrated the destructive potential of these natural hazards. Problematically, determining whether high hurricane activity levels remained constant through time is difficult given the short observational record (

SUBMITTER: Winkler TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7538955 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Revising evidence of hurricane strikes on Abaco Island (The Bahamas) over the last 700 years.

Winkler Tyler S TS   van Hengstum Peter J PJ   Donnelly Jeffrey P JP   Wallace Elizabeth J EJ   Sullivan Richard M RM   MacDonald Dana D   Albury Nancy A NA  

Scientific reports 20201006 1


The northern Bahamas have experienced more frequent intense-hurricane impacts than almost anywhere else in the Atlantic since 1850 CE. In 2019, category 5 (Saffir-Simpson scale) Hurricane Dorian demonstrated the destructive potential of these natural hazards. Problematically, determining whether high hurricane activity levels remained constant through time is difficult given the short observational record (< 170 years). We present a 700-year long, near-annually resolved stratigraphic record of h  ...[more]

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