Shell Island 



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 *Stapor, F. W., Jr. 1975. Holocene beach ridge plain development, 

 northwest Florida. Pages 116-144 in R. W. Fairbridge ed. Contri- 

 butions to coastal geomorphology. Gebruder Borntraeger, Berlin. 



Deals with formation of beach ridges in northwest Florida, their 

 structure, and organization based on topographic pattern. Beach 

 ridge patterns are given for Dog Island, St. George Island, St. 

 Vincent Island, Cape San Bias, St. Joseph Spit, Beacon Hill, and 

 Shell Island. 



St. Andrew 



Miramar 



Santa Rosa Island 



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Gunn, C. R., and J. V. Dennis. 1973. Tropical and temperate stranded 



seeds and fruits from the Gulf of Mexico. University of Texas, 



Contributions in Marine Science 17:111-121. 



This article discusses the frequent strandings of buoyant tropi- 

 cal seeds and fruits (disseminules) on northern and western Gulf 

 of Mexico beaches, such as Padre Island, Texas; Santa Rosa Island, 

 Florida; northward along the west Texas coast; and along the west- 

 ern coast of Louisiana. 



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Kwon, H. J. 1969. Barrier islands of the northern Gulf of Mexico 

 coast: sediment source and development. Louisiana State Univer- 

 sity Press, Baton Rouge. 51 pp. 



Santa Rosa Island, the Mississippi Sound barrier islands, Bolivar 

 Peninsula, the interdeltaic barrier arc of southeast Texas, and 

 the Mississippi Delta barrier islands are all discussed in relation 

 to source of sediments and littoral processes. 



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Sonu, C. J., S. P. Murray, S-A. Hsu, J. N. Suhayda, and E. Waddell. 

 1973. Sea breeze and coastal processes. Louisiana State Univer- 

 sity, Coastal Studies Institute, Technical Report 153. 17 pp. 



This report describes a field program conducted at Santa Rosa 

 Island to determine the amplitude, phase, and frequency character- 

 istics of waves, currents, and beach topography to the diurnal 

 excitation of a sea breeze system. 



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