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1. REPORT NUMBER 

 MR 79-4 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO, 



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4. TITLE fand Subfile; 



SEDIMENT DISTRIBUTION, SAND RESOURCES, AND 

 GEOLOGIC CHARACTER OF THE INNER CONTINENTAL 

 SHELF OFF GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



AUTHORfs; 



S. Jeffress Williams 

 Dennis A. Prins 

 Edward P. Meisburger 



B. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfsJ 



. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-GE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



D31466 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



July 1979 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



15^ I -^-O 



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UNCLASSIFIED 



16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT fo/ this Report; 



Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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Artificial beach nourishment 

 Galveston Coionty, Texas 

 Geomorphology 



Sediments 



Seismic reflection 



2Q> ABSTRACT (Canttaue an reverse »fc& ff rmcevaary aad Identify by block number) 



About 850 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Texas inner shelf 

 from High Island to Freeport was surveyed and studied, using high-resolution 

 continuous seismic reflection profiles taken along several hundred kilometers 

 of trackline and 34 long cores, to determine the general geologic character 

 and surface and subbottom sediment distribution. The objective was to assess 

 the resource potential of sand deposits suitable as fill for beach nourishment 

 projects . 



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