Reconstructing the prehistoric record of intense hurricane landfalls from Southwest Florida back-barrier sediments

• Main Author: Ercolani, Christian Paul
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Florida Gulf Coast University 2014
• Subjects: Marine Geology|Paleoclimate Science; Collier; Island Bay; Lagoon Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1562046

Recent research has proposed that an increase in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) interpreted to be caused by anthropogenic climate change has lead to an increase in the frequency of intense hurricanes. However, this theory has been challenged on the basis that the instrumental record is too short (a...