Reef shell or mudshell dredging in coastal bays and its effect upon the environment. (Reprint).

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noAcc# 4535en_US
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dc.contributor.authorGunter, G.en_US
dc.contributor.otherTransactions of the Thirty-Fourth North American Wildlife and Natural resources Conference, March 2,3,4,5 1969.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:09:26Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:09:26Z
dc.date.issued1969en_US
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dc.descriptionp. 51-74en_US
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dc.description.abstractThe last Ice Age, called the Wurm in Europe and the Wisconsin in North America, lasted over 100,000 years. So much water was tied up in ice that the sea level stood 400 feet lower than it does today and the larger part of the continental shelf was exposed around the Earth. During that period the rivers along the present Gulf of Mexico coastline were running at a rather steep gradient in gorges or very narrow deep estuaries, possibly into bays and sounds farther out on the shelf. Prof. Albert Collier and I independently found old oyster shells five and ten miles out in the Gulf off the Texas coast. They were quite abundant, and my specimens were taken in trawls. These shells showed signs of having been buried. Emery and Garrison (1967) found oysters as much as sixty miles offshore from the New Jersey coast. They were said to be almost 11,000 years old. It seems certain that estuarine environments formerly lay many miles seaward of what they do now on the Gulf Coast; presumably they moved landward as the sea level rose.en_US
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dc.geo-codeGulf of Mexicoen_US
dc.geo-codeBrazos Riveren_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeRedfish reefen_US
dc.geo-codeEagle Pointen_US
dc.geo-codeSmith Pointen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/22342
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dc.locationGBIC Collectionen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofseries4535.00en_US
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dc.subjectreefshell dredgingen_US
dc.subjectmudshell dredgingen_US
dc.subjectoyster cultureen_US
dc.subjectenvironmental impacten_US
dc.titleReef shell or mudshell dredging in coastal bays and its effect upon the environment. (Reprint).en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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