The Texas Coastal Zone is marked by diversity in geography, resources, climate, and industry.

The stratigraphic record yields evidence that each episode of clastic silicate deposition has been of limited duration and that each has been preceded and followed by a significant hiatus.

Historical monitoring along Galveston Island records the type and magnitude of changes in position of the shoreline and vegetation line and provides insight into the factors affecting those changes.

The Texas Coastal Zone is marked by diversity in geography, resources, climate, and industry.

Basic geologic, hydrologic and engineering criteria on which selection of sanitary landfill sites should be based include (1) thickness, excavation characteristics, permeability, solution-holding capacity, and reactivity of host and cover materials; (2) hydrologic properties including depth to wa

A resource capability unit is an environmental entity--land, water, area of active process, or biota--defined in terms of the nature, degree of activity, or use it can sustain without losing an acceptable level of environmental quality.

Geologic map that depicts the surface geology of Galveston and Chambers Counties and parts of Waller, Harris, Liberty, Jefferson, Orange, Brazoria, Matagorda, Wharton, and Fort Bend Counties.