Can beach dune ridges of the Texas Gulf Coast preserve climate signals?

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-250

  Garrison Jr , James R ^a   Mestas Nuñez, Alberto M ^b   Williams, Joshua R ^c   Lumb, Luz M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS; GROWTH MODELS; GULF COAST; GULF OF MEXICO; LANDFALLING; NORTH ATLANTIC; PROGRADATION; SAND DEPOSITION; SAND PROVENANCES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SHOREFACE; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; TROPICAL STORMS; VERTICAL ACCRETION; VERTICAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL RADAR; STORMS;

SAND;

BEACH; COASTAL EVOLUTION; DECADAL VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DUNE FORMATION; GRAIN SIZE; LIDAR; PROGRADATION; SAND; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF OF MEXICO; PADRE ISLAND; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860994486     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0263-x     Document Type: Article

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