Holocene evolution of the western Louisiana-Texas Coast, USA response to sea-level rise and climate change /
"The Western Louisiana and Texas coast is vulnerable to sea-level rise due to low gradients, high subsidence, and depleted sediment supply. This Memoir describes the response of coastal environments to variable rates of sea-level rise and sediment supply during Holocene to modern time. This vol...
| Main Author: | Anderson, John B., 1944- |
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| Other Authors: | Wallace, Davin J.,, Rodriguez, Antonio B.,, Simms, Alexander R.,, Milliken, Kristy T., |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boulder, Colorado :
The Geological Society of America,
2022.
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| Physical Description: |
iv, 81 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm. |
| Series: |
Memoir (Geological Society of America) ;
221. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Study area
- Sea level history
- Data sets and methods
- Radiocarbon dating
- Results
- Late Pleistocene coastal evolution
- MIS 5-2 sea level fall and lowstand
- MIS 2-1 transgression
- Sand banks
- Offshore Trinity and Sabine incised river valleys
- Coastal Trinity, Sabine, and Calcasieu valleys
- Western Louisiana Chenier Plain
- East Texas Barrier system
- The Brazos-Colorado fluvial-deltaic systems
- The central Texas coast
- The south Texas coast
- Discussion
- Coastal response to climate change and decreasing sea-level rise
- Controls on coastal evolution
- Antecendent topography
- Sea level rise
- Sediment supply and dispersal
- Oceanographic influences and the Texas Mud Blanket
- Impacts from severe storms
- Anthropogenic impacts
- Ongoing and future change
- Wetland and bay impacts
- Coastal barriers
- Conclusions.