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 *Gage, B. 0. 1970. Experimental dunes of the Texas coast. U.S. Army, Corps 

 of Engineers, Coastal Enqineering Research Center, Miscellaneous Paper 

 No. 1-70. 34 pp. 



This publication reports on experimental means of creating and 

 stabilizing sand dunes to protect the Texas coast. Areas of study 

 were Galveston Island, Packery Channel, Newport Pass on North Padre 

 Island, and Corpus Christi Pass. 



858 



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 western 

 coast of Louisiana. 



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Hayes, M. 0. 1964. Grain size modes in Padre Island sands. Pages 



121-126 in_ Depositional environments south-central Texas coast. 



Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting, 1964, 



Field Trip Guidebook. Austin, Texas. 



In this study of Padre Island, statistical grain-size parameters 

 were analyzed from 57 dune and 16 beach samples. 



860 



Hayes, M. 0. 1964. Summary of geological effects of hurricanes Carla 

 (1961) and Cindy (1963) on the south Texas coast. Pages 127-136 jn_ 

 Depositional environments, south-central Texas coast. Gulf Coast 

 Association of Geological Societies, Annual Meeting, 1964, Field 

 Trip Guidebook. Austin, Texas. 



This article discusses the geological effects of Hurricane Carla 

 on the barrier complex and wind-tidal flats of south Texas, and the 

 effects of Hurricane Cindy on the contact area between the old Carla 

 beach and the post-Carla prebeach. 



861 



Hayes, M. 0. 1966. Some observations on the geological effects of 



hurricanes, south Texas coast. Bulletin of the Houston Geoloqical 



Society 9(l):18-26. 



The effect of tropical storms on near-shore sedimentation is 

 described with special reference to Hurricane Carla (November 1961). 



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