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Coastal Geomorphology Field Trip

Host site for information related to this recurring field trip to examine the geologic process, geomorphologic landforms, and ecological niches found in the Lower Nueces River Valley, Nueces Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, Oso Bay Estuary, Laguna Madre, to the Mustang & Padre Barrier Islands.

Coastal Geomorphology Field Trip

Geomorphology and Geologic History with Ecological Observations of the Nueces River Valley Corpus Christi Bay, Laguna Madre, and Mustang & Padre Barrier Islands.

The Corpus Christi Geological Society produced a video telling the story of the South Texas Coastal Landscape through the stages of sea level changes occurring through the late Pleistocene into the Holocene.



Field Trip Documents

AAA_Working-SIPES-Field-Trip-Road-Log-and-Descriptions_FNL-1Download

Posters from the Field Day

Digital Elevation Model of the Oso Bay Wetlands from HRI

Most-of-Randys-SIPES-Geomorphology-Field-Trip-Posters-sm-1Download

These posters are provided for reference only, not to be reproduced or shared. Some may be different or earlier versions than those seen in the field.


Reference Publications

1958_CCGS_Price_Sedimentology-and-Geomorphology-S-TexDownload
1971_AAPG_Aronow_Nueces-River-Delta-Plain-BeaumontDownload
1980_BEG_Weise_PINS-GB-17-Guide-to-GeologyDownload
1980_BEG_Weise_PINS-GB-17-Guide-to-Geology_mapDownload
1988_STGS_Taylor_AlShaieb_Vicksburg-Jumbalaya-SandstonesDownload
1995_GCAGS_Blum_Durban_Deweyville-Terrace-Gulf-CoastDownload
1995_Morton_GCAGS_Deweyville-Terrace-DepositsDownload
1995_TXJOURSCI_Cornish_Lower-Nueces-Valley-SedimentsDownload
1996_CBBEP_Corpus-Christi-Bay-Estuary-ResourcesDownload
1997_GCAGS_Durban_Blum_Stratigraphy-Lower-NuecesDownload
2000_Blum_Carter_Middle-Holocene-Evolution-of-Central-Texas-Coast-1Download
2001_USGS_Otvos_Holocene-Mississippi-CoastDownload
2002_JCR_Blum_Mid-Holocene-Sea-LevelDownload
2006_Elsevier_Simms_et_Barrier-Island-Aggradation-Mustang-IslandDownload
2008_GSA_Simms_Mechanisms-Controlling-Estuary-Corpus-Christi-BayDownload
2012_SEPM_Anderson_Shelf-Margin-DeltasDownload
2013_ELSEVIER_Simms-et-al_Rates-of-GOM-SubsidenceDownload
2013_JSTOR_Williams_Predicting-Change-in-Coastal-EcosystemsDownload
2014_Elsevier_Buza-Stephens_Holocene-Climate-ChangeDownload
2015_Earth_News_Anderson_Recycling-Gulf-of-Mexico-Sediments_Barriers_Sink_smDownload
2016_GCAGS_Baskin_Thomas_Guidebook-for-Geology-and-Paleontology-of-the-Lower-Nueces-ValleyDownload
2017_Ferguson_Breach_of_Mustang_IslandDownload
2017_UT_Excerpted_Caudle-et-al_Geoforce-9th-Grade-Guidebook-for-TX-CoastDownload
2019_MarinePollBull_Swanson-et-al_Accumulation-Distribution-of-Marine-DebrisDownload
2020_AAAS_Miller_Global-Sea-LevelDownload
2020_AAPG_Snedden_Northern-GOM-Super-BasinDownload
2020_Elsevier_Rice_Simms_Holocene_History_Nueces_DeltaDownload
2023_Ramadan_SEG_North_Padre_ElectromagneticDownload

CCGS ICE AGE POSTER and mural by artist Dinah Bowan

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