Historical monitoring along Brazos and south Padre Islands records the nature and magnitude of changes in position of the shoreline and vegetation line and provides insight into the factors affecting those changes.

Nelson and others (1962) define a bank as " ... a skeletal deposit formed by organisms which do not have the ecologic potential to erect a rigid wave-resistant structure." They explain that a bank may have any geometry.

Historical monitoring in the vicinity of the Brazos River delta (San Luis Pass to Brown Cedar Cut) records the nature and magnitude of changes in position of the shoreline 'and vegetation line and provides insight into the factors affecting those changes.

The public tends to dismiss floods as somewhat unreal catastrophes or occasional inconveniences that usually affect others.

 Geologic map that depicts the  surface geology of Nueces County and parts of Jim Wells, San Patricio, Aransas, Kleberg, and Kenedy Counties.