Two millennia of tropical cyclone-induced mud layers in a northern Yucatán stalagmite : multiple overlapping climatic hazards during the Maya Terminal Classic “megadroughts”

• Main Authors: Frappier, Amy Benoit, Pyburn, James, Pinkey-Drobnis, Aurora D., Wang, Xianfeng, Corbett, D. Reide, Dahlin, Bruce H.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Structural geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104967; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20389
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An annually laminated stalagmite from the northern Yucatán Peninsula contains mud layers from 256 cave flooding events over 2240 years. This new conservative proxy for paleotempestology recorded cave flooding events with a recurrence interval of 8.3 years during the twentieth century, with the great...