Texas Coastal Processes- Brazos River Delta to Galveston Island- one day field trip Sunday March 2
Here's your chance to attend Erik Scott's acclaimed Galveston Island field trip!!
Date: Sunday, March 2, all day, leaves from George R Brown convention center
associated with the AAPG CCUS conference downtown Houston
Texas Coastal Processes – Brazos River Delta to Galveston Island
With the AAPG CCUS conference in Houston
cost $325, limited to 16 people
Sunday, 2 March 2025, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. | Houston, Texas
https://ccusevent.org/2025/program/field-trips/field-trip?articleid=67999
Sites ~60 miles south of Houston along ~35 miles of the SE Texas coastline provide excellent locations to observe coastal sedimentological processes and their resultant deposits. This section of the Texas coast is characterized by barrier islands separated by tidal inlets and river outlets. The larger, sand-ridge cored, prograding Galveston Island contrasts with the smaller, wash-over dominated, retreating Follets Island and is separated by the stable, long-lived San Luis Pass that exhibits well developed flood and ebb tide delta systems. The Brazos River empties into the Gulf of Mexico to the south of Follets Island and forms a wave-dominated delta system. The Brazos River Delta has undergone significant changes due to human intervention and demonstrates the dynamic nature of sediment movement and deposition along the coast. This section of the coast provides insight into the steady lower energy background processes of sediment movement and the higher energy short term events, and the resultant reservoir characteristics of clastic coastal deposits from these different mechanisms. The understanding gained from these modern systems can be applied as an analog for subsurface exploration and production along the Gulf Coast and elsewhere.
Objectives
Understand clastic sediment distribution along coastal and barrier island systems.
Itinerary Roster
- Rendezvous in the lobby of George R. Brown Exhibition Center
- Drive to Freeport, TX
- Stops from Bryan Beach Park to Brazos River Delta
- Stop 1 Overview of beach environments and processes
- Stop 2 Recent erosion of back barrier deposits
- Stop 3 Washover apron
- Stop 4 Brazos River Delta
- Lunch at the Brazos River Delta
- Drive to Follets Island
- Stops northeast of Surfside Beach
- Stop 5 (optional) Back Barrier Environment
- Stop 6 Washover fan system
- Drive to Galveston Island
- Stops from San Luis Pass to the Galveston Seawall
- Stop 7 Tidal inlet and coastal dunes
- Stop 8 Sand ridges
- Stop 9 Recent foreshore erosion/deposition
Return to George R. Brown Exhibition Center
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