Beaches of the Gulf Coast

Index

Index 229 accessory minerals, 54, 55 heavy minerals, 55, 56, 164, 213 Alabama coast, 143, 144, 148 Anclote Key, Florida, 38 Anna Maria Island, Florida, 120, 122 antidunes, 60, 61 aragonite, 55 attached bar, 23 back-barrier, 128 backbarrier bay, 31, 117 backbarrier marsh, 172 backbeach, 27, 28, 31, 61, 62, 95, 117, 119, 122, 147, 174, 205 Bahamas, 7 barrier island, 36, 154, 155, 180 Bay of Fundy, 49 beach cusps, 29, 30 beach management, 124, 124, 196, 197 beach manicuring, 219 beach morning glory, 98, 100 beach nourishment, 81, 82, 85, 153 beach profile, 32, 155, 194, 201 beach sediment, 113, 117 beach textures, 47 beachrock, 33, 34, 120 bedforms, 59 bedrock, 212, 220 Big Bend, Florida, 35, 105 Big Sarasota Pass, Florida, 45, 120 Big Shell, 199, 202 Biloxi, Mississippi, 155, 156 bimodal, 50, 51, 66, 67,76, 209 bivalve, 91, 93, 94 Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, 179, 181, 182 borrow material, 82, 109 boulders, 149, 184, 212, 213 Brazos River, Texas, 187, 189 breaking waves, 10,21 breakwater, 72, 126, 171, 172 Brownsville, Texas, 88 bucket dredge, 82 Bunces Pass, Florida, 43, 125 burrow, 94, 97, 99 Caladesi Island, Florida, 40, 128 calcium carbonate, 55, 58 Campeche, Mexico, 35, 214, 215 Cancun, Mexico, 216, 217, 219 Captiva Island, Florida, 112, 113, 114 carbon dating, 33 carbonate beaches, 214 Caribbean Sea, 7 Casey Key, Florida 119 Cat Island, Mississippi, 165, 166 Cayo Costa Island, Florida, 113, 115 Cedar Bayou, Texas, 192 Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, 168, 169 chemical sediments, 58 chenier plain, 167, 174 Christmas trees, 186, 188 Christmas trees, 90 clay, 47, 54, 55 clay dunes, 209, 210, 211 Clearwater Beach Island, Florida, 128 Clearwater Pass, Florida, 127 Clearwater, Florida, 87 cleavage, 52 cobbles, 213 cold front, 4 Colorado River delta, 191 continental shelf, 7 coppice mounds, 28, 199, 201 Corps of Engineers, 65, 81, 183 Corpus Christi, Texas, 104 Crystal Beach, Texas, 181, 186 Cuba, 35 current crescents, 62 cusps, 62 cyclone 9 Dauphin Island, Alabama, 32, 146, 149, 150, 151 Deepwater Horizon spill, 144 delta lobe, 168 diurnal tide, 16 dragline and barge, 84 dredge, 82 dredging, 198 hopper dredge, 82, 84, 85 suction dredge, 82, 84 drumstick barrier, 37, 40, 45. 128 Dry Tortugas, Florida, 105, 106 Dunedin Pass, Florida, 128 dunes, 88, 147, 169, 171, 182, 189, 193, 195, 196, 203 foredunes, 89, 199 ebb shield, 42 ebb-tidal currents, 42 ebb-tidal delta, 37, 42, 43, 45, 82, 125 Egmont Key, Florida, 122, 124 erosion, 19, 56, 66,118, 126,152, 186, 206, 214, 215, 216 feldspar, 54, 55, 58 fence, 176, 183 sand fences, 169, 170 snow fence, 89 fetch, 9 fetch limited, 9, 103 fillet, 76, 194 flood-tidal delta, 37, 42 Florida coast, 7, 25, 28, 76, 95, 97, 109, 110, 113 Florida Keys, 104 Florida panhandle, 4, 7, 39, 52, 103, 179, 181 Follets Island, Texas, 186, 187 foraminifera, 55, 56,57 foredunes, 89, 199 foreshore, 26, 27, 31, 51, 85, 92, 218 Fort Massachusetts, Mississippi, 163 frontal system 5 232 index Galveston Bay, Texas, 181 Galveston Island, Texas, 182, 185–187 Galveston, Texas, 70, 71, 104,182, 185 Gasparilla Island, Florida 116 geotextile tubes, 68, 87 ghost crab, 97, 99 ghost shrimp, 94 glaciers, 18 grain shape, 51, 52 grain size scale, 48 Grand Isle, Louisiana, 167, 168, 170, 171 gravel, 47 groin, 74, 77, 123, 183 Gulfport, Alabama, 143 Gulfport, Mississippi, 155, 156 Havana, Cuba, 220, 223 heavy minerals, 55, 56, 164, 213 High Island, Texas, 180 Holly Beach, Louisiana, 172, 174–177 Holocene, 166 hopper dredge, 82, 84, 85 Horn Island, Mississippi, 161 Hudson Bay, 18, 19 hurricane, 7, 107 Hurricane Danny, 143 Hurricane Elena 1985, 25 Hurricane Frederick 1979, 147, 150 Hurricane Ike 2008, 8, 186 Hurricane Ivan 2004, 153 Hurricane Katrina 2005, 153, 156, 158, 160, 162, 165, 166 Hurricane Pass, Florida, 41 Hurricane Rita 2005, 174, 176 hurricanes, 174 Indian River, Delaware, 80 intertidal beach, 26 Intracostal Waterway, 187 Isla del Carmen, Mexico, 214 Isla Mujeres, Mexico, 216 Isles Dernieres, Louisiana, 172, 173 Jacksonville, Florida, 74 jetty, 76, 78, 79, 194 Key Largo Limestone, 105–107 Key West, Florida, 107, 108 Laguna Madre, Mexico, 209 Lake Michigan, 66, 68 Lido Key, Florida, 120 limestone, 210, 211 limestone, 210, 211, 214, 215, 221 Little Shell, 199 Long Beach, Louisiana, 178 Long Key, Florida, 125, 126 Longboat Key, Florida, 120–122 longshore bar, 12, 21, 22 longshore currents, 12, 37 longshore transport, 45, 72 Louisiana, 72, 73 Louisiana coast, 167, 172 lunar cycle, 14, 15...