This report deals with the occurrence and potential production of industrial sand in the Gulf Coast area of Texas. The study area covers approximately 23,000 square miles underlain by alluvial, deltaic, beach, and eolian deposits of Pleistocene and Recent age. Deposits are intermixed and interbedded sands, gravels, silts, and clays. Sand bodies are irregular in size and shape depending on environment of deposition; they vary in physical character and mineralogical and chemical composition.