Study area -- Sea level history -- Data sets and methods -- Radiocarbon dating -- Results -- Late Pleistocene coastal evolution -- MIS 5-2 sea level fall and lowstand -- MIS 2-1 transgression -- Sand banks -- Offshore Trinity and Sabine incised river valleys -- Coastal Trinity, Sabine, and Calcasieu valleys -- Western Louisiana Chenier Plain -- East Texas Barrier system -- The Brazos-Colorado fluvial-deltaic systems -- The central Texas coast -- The south Texas coast -- Discussion -- Coastal response to climate change and decreasing sea-level rise -- Controls on coastal evolution -- Antecendent topography -- Sea level rise -- Sediment supply and dispersal -- Oceanographic influences and the Texas Mud Blanket -- Impacts from severe storms -- Anthropogenic impacts -- Ongoing and future change -- Wetland and bay impacts -- Coastal barriers -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"The Western Louisiana and Texas coast is vulnerable to sea-level rise due to low gradients, high subsidence, and depleted sediment supply. This Memoir describes the response of coastal environments to variable rates of sea-level rise and sediment supply during Holocene to modern time. This volume is a wake-up call about the potential magnitude of coastal change over decadal to centennial time scales"-- Provided by publisher.
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