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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 54, 期 2, 页码 238-245出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2000.2166
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hurricanes; paleotempestology; coastal lakes; lake sediments; overwash events; storm deposits; climate variability; Gulf of Mexico
Sediment cores from Western Lake provide a 7000-yr record of coastal environmental changes and catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle. Using Hurricane Opal as a modern analog, we infer that overwash sand layers occurring near the center of the lake were caused by catastrophic hurricanes of category 4 or 5 intensity. Few catastrophic hurricanes struck the Western Lake area during two quiescent periods 3400-5000 and 0-1000 C-14 Yr B.P. The landfall probabilities increased dramatically to ca. 0.5% per yr during an hyperactive period from 1000-3400 C-14 yr B.P., especially in the first millennium A.D. The millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast is probably controlled by shifts in the position of the jet stream and the Bermuda High. (C) 2000 University of Washington.
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