...M. A. McCaffrey; B. Lazar; H. D. Holland Abstract Brines and salt were sampled at the Morton Bahamas solar salt production facility on Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas. The brines were analyzed by ion chromatography to define more precisely than heretofore the evaporation path of seawater...

... was to assess the impact of Hurricane Michelle on the carbonate tidal flats of Andros Island, Bahamas, by coupling remote-sensing data and field observations. Although regional MODIS remote-sensing data reveal that the passage of Hurricane Michelle suspended sediments across the shallow bank, integrating ultra...

... 1963 ; Nelson and Bray 1970 ; Frazier 1974 ; Törnqvist et al. 2004 ; Simms et al. 2007 ; Milliken et al. 2008 ). However, some have argued for a mid-Holocene highstand around 5 ka along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico ( Behrens 1966a ; Tanner et al. 1989 ; Morton et al. 2000a ; Blum et al...

...Robert A. Morton; Bruce M. Richmond; Bruce E. Jaffe; Guy Gelfenbaum Abstract Coastal gravel-ridge complexes deposited on islands in the Caribbean Sea are recorders of past extreme-wave events that could be associated with either tsunamis or hurricanes. The ridge complexes of Bonaire, Jamaica...

... and Alexander, 2001 ). Assuming subtidal depths of 5–10 m (similar to the present-day Bahamas), such a flow in a shallow-water platform could be generated only by a large tsunami ( Morton et al., 2007 ). There has been debate on distinguishing between paleotsunami deposits and paleocyclone deposits using...

... cores drilled on Great Bahama Bank (sample numbers begin with the prefix “BA”) ( Anselmetti and Eberli, 1993 ; Melim et al., in press), 4 samples from cores of Cretaceous oil reservoirs in the Middle East (sample numbers begin with “ME”), and 2 samples from outcrops of the carbonate platform...

..., Egypt, and Mauritania), Baja California, Belize, the Bahamas, the southern North Sea, and the northeast United States (see review by Gerdes and Krumbein, 1994 ). Baffin Bay formed as Los Olmos, San Fernando, and Petronilla Creeks incised and subsequently flooded during the last glacial cycle...

...) , and Newell (1971) . The following list of papers is a sample of those papers to which the writer has referred, that describe reefs throughout the tropics. Bahamas: Newell and Rigby (1957) ; Storr (1964) ; Milliman (1967) Barbados: Lewis (1960 , 1965 ) Bermuda: Garrett et al . (1971...

... Mountain Sandstone ( Bridge et al. 1947 ; Morton and Long 1980 ). The Lion Mountain Member is the thin but widespread upper regressive unit (6 to 15 meters), and it represents a high-energy marine setting. It is rich in bright green glauconitic pellets in cross-bedded sandstone that displays zones...

... in the deposition of the Gurabo Formation. Transgression and sea-level highstand in the late–early Pliocene (3.9–3.5 Ma) produced distinctive margin progradation primarily by coral debris. This progradation event was synchronous with progradation in the nearby western Great Bahama Bank. The different stratal...

... with sea-level change is shown in Figure 15 . The early Pliocene highstand I event shown in Figure 15 ( Haq et al., 1987 ) has been recognized from the Bahamas (McNeill et al., in press; Eberli et al., in press), and may have provided the setting for the nearshore deposition of the distant Brazo...

... ). Such oceanographic patterns in a tropical setting contrast with the oligotrophic and euphotic tropical waters typical for regions where extensive carbonate reefs are found—for example, Bahamas, Caribbean, Pacific Islands (e.g., Tucker and Wright, 1990 ). The faunal assemblage of the Golfe d'Arguin is dominated...

... them from tempestites and other storm-generated deposits ( Goff et al., 2004 ; Nanayama et al., 2000 ; Tuttle et al., 2004 ). Less is known, however, about the taphonomic characteristics of shells within tsunami layers (i.e., Kidwell, 1986 ; Morton et al., 2007 ), particularly those found in non...

...Robert A. Morton; Jeffrey G. Paine; Michael D. Blum Abstract The microtidal, wave-dominated coast of the western Gulf of Mexico displays a variety of Holocene geomorphic features indicating higher-than-present water levels that were previously attributed to storm processes while geoidal sea level...

... of washover fans along kilometre lengths of shoreline ( Sallenger 2000 ; Morton and Sallenger 2003 ; Donnelly et al. 2006 ; Matias et al. 2008 ). Washover fans may be reactivated during subsequent storms, although, on most sandy systems, it is possible to recognize a sequence of stages leading to overwash...

... ). Excavated sand-dune nuclei underlie en echelon coral reefs off Bal Harbor ( Shinn et al., 1977 ). The widespread presence of Pleistocene eolian dunes in the Caribbean and Bahamas and similarity in environmental setting to Florida (e.g., Ball, 1967 ; McKee and Ward, 1983 ) suggest dunes should be present...

... ship-track data density and lacks gridded data south of 30° N. Therefore, we interpret Mesozoic Chrons from the Bahamas to just northeast of the Atlantis fracture zone on the North American flank, but only along a 200-km-wide corridor between the Atlantis and Kane fracture zones on the African flank...

... have favored compaction of Holocene strata (e.g., Penland and Ramsey, 1990 ), fluid withdrawal from the deeper subsurface (e.g., Morton et al., 2003 ), growth-fault activity (e.g., Kuecher et al., 2001 ), or combinations thereof. However, a recent geodetic study based on high-resolution leveling...

... Neocrinus decorus was procured by Baumiller and Messing (2007) from a submersible vehicle at a depth of 420 m near Grand Bahama Island. This video provided the first direct evidence that stalked crinoids, which were previously considered to be sessile taxa, are mobile organisms, capable of relocating...

... , Edmonton , 107 p. Beach , D.K. , and Ginsburg , R.N. , 1980 , Facies succession of Pliocene-Pleistocene carbonates, Northwestern Bahama Bank : American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin , v. 64 , p. 1634 - 1641 . Beets , C.J. , 1992 , Calibration of the late...