Intense hurricane transports sand onshore: Example from the Pliocene Malbusca section on Santa Maria Island (Azores, Portugal)

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Johnson, Markes E., Uchman, Alfred, Costa, Pedro J. M., Ramalho, Ricardo S., Avila, Sergio P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Maria Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142098/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.02.002

Southern cliffs on Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago (North Atlantic Ocean) feature submarine volcanic sequences inter-bedded with Pliocene coralline algal limestone, shelly coquinas, and mixed volcaniclastic-calcarenite sandstone. Within the 20-m sedimentary succession at Malbusca, a sin...