Fig. 2.

Aerial view of Saliña Tam (1996), western Bonaire (Fig. 1), providing information on coring sites and bathymetry of the water body. The cross section A−A′ was measured by DGPS. The internal structure of the barrier is also shown on Fig. 3. The ESR age of a large head coral (1300 ± 60 a) is taken from Scheffers (2005). The back-barrier stratigraphy is based on SAT 10 (Fig. 9). Dates on the seaward berm indicate morphological traces of hurricanes Lenny (1999), Tekla (1877) and an unspecified EWE c. 600 years ago (Scheffers, 2005). A key to symbols is on Fig. 5. EWE = extreme wave event.