Laguna Playa Grande

As sea level and barrier morphology change over time so to does a site's susceptibility to storm induced overwash. Intense storms will have less of an impact with lower sea levels while a weaker storm may create a large overwash deposit during sea level highstands. In order to explore this issue a series of cores were collected in transects across Laguna Playa Grande between 2001 and 2004. The cores showed marked variability in terms of the thickness and extent of the overwash deposits. However, when combining the overwash results with sea level reconstructions and computational wave height modelling, researchers were able to account for the changing sensitivity of the site and speak directly to the intensity of the individual storms in the record. Reconstructing relative flooding intensities responsible for hurricane induced deposits from Laguna Playa Grande, Vieques, Puerto Rico Laguna Playa Grande, Puerto Rico - Grain Size/Paleohurricane Data Laguna Playa Grande, Puerto Rico - Age Model

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