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.

Historical monitoring between Sabine Pass and Bolivar Roads 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 Canyon Group (Missourian Series) is a sequence of westward-dipping, genetically related carbonate and terrigenous clastic facies that crop out in a northeast-southwest belt across North-Central Texas.

Cracked pavements, undulating road surfaces, broken curbs, stairstep fractures of brick and stone building walls, and tilted power poles are common occurrences in areas underlain by cracking, expansive clay soils of the Vertisol order.

Nitrogen isotope ratios of ammonium and nitrate ions from soil and water samples can be analyzed reproducibly with an experimental error of approximately +/-1 parts per thousand (ppt). Two isotopic ranges of soil nitrate are found in the soils of southern Runnels County, Texas.