Historical monitoring along Mustang and north 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.

Barrier islands along the Texas Coastal Zone are part of a complex and dynamic system represented by many distinct yet interrelated environments affected by a variety of resources, natural processes, climatic conditions, and human activities.

Combining process and geomorphic description (supplied by studies of modern depositional systems) with the three-dimensional description of sedimentary units and their internal structures (accomplished in the stratigraphic record) produces an integrated facies model that can be applied to the int