Print this pageAbstract: Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Karst Features, Laguna Madre, South Texas: A Record of Climate Change
Jennifer S. Prouty
A Pleistocene coquina bordering Laguna Madre, south Texas, contains well-developed late Pleistocene-early Holocene karst features (solution pipes and caliche crusts) unknown elsewhere from coastal Texas. The coquina accumulated in a localized zone of converging longshore Gulf currents along a Gulf beach. The crusts yield 14C dates of 16,660 to 7630 B.P., with
AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90950©1996 AAPG GCAGS 46th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas