<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b4e84b4-b6ed-44ed-926b-c89578dba293/A9A0DA03-63DB-463F-ABF9-D17D5B3BA37B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879" href="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879" style="font-size: 11px;">www.whoi.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879"><DIV> Donnelly used his geologic dating tools—pollen grains, industrial metal residues, carbon 14-to estimate when those sandy sediments were laid down. He then compared his records with aerial photos of the “overwash” fans spread by known historical hurricanes. The sand layers were reliable evidence of the biggest storms. Taking samples from several other sites along the New England coast, he found he had a record of major hurricane activity stretching back 600 to 1,000 years, well beyond the meteorological data. Such a long record would allow scientists to estimate the long-term return rates of intense, land-falling hurricanes. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.whoi.edu/img/833D44EB-711F-4E0F-9289-88B64EA5309D" alt="sediment core" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879">A sediment core allows Donnelly to chronicle the landfall of historic hurricanes, such as the 1635, 1938, and 1954 storms that struck New England</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.whoi.edu/img/F5014EFA-5045-4290-92CD-E20651577BBD" alt="cross-section of a marsh " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=13515&tid=282&cid=6879">A cross-section of a marsh at Barn Island, CT, shows the layers of sand laid down by Hurricane Carol in 1954 (at 10 centimeters) and the 1938 Hurricane (at 14 centimeters).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; 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