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News Release 15-012
Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming
Scientists find clues in sediment deposits on Cape Cod
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Waves crashed ashore in Woods Hole, Mass., during a 1938 hurricane.
Credit: WHOI
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Scientists collect a sediment core; the sediment shows intense storms going back 2,000 years.
Credit: WHOI
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Sediment core section; light-colored sand at 22.7 feet down is evidence of an intense past storm.
Credit: Jeffrey Donnelly, WHOI
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Home in Union Beach, N.J., destroyed by a Hurricane Sandy storm tide in 2012.
Credit: Richard Sullivan, WHOI
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Satellite view of Hurricane Earl as it threatens the U.S. East Coast in 2010.
Credit: NASA
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Aerial image of Dauphin Island, Ala., following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Credit: USGS
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