Texas

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Texas

• Barrier Islands

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Barrier Islands

• Galveston Island
• Matagorda Island
• San Jose Island
• Mustang Island
• Padre Island
• ?Total coastline367 miles

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Galveston Island

• Storm of 1900 killed 6000 people
• Seawall 54,790 feet long, 17 feet high, 20 feet
  wide
  
• 32 miles of beachfront

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Matagorda Island

• 40 miles long x 2 miles wide
• 10,000 visitors a year
• Only accessible by boat
• Grasslands, woodlands, tidal marshes, and
  brackish ponds, maximum elevation22 ft.
  
• State Park

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San Jose Island

• 21 miles long
• Consists of series of islands
• Uninhabited

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Mustang Island

• 3954 acres with 5 miles of beach
• 35 foot dunes, 15-20 foot avg.
• State Park

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Padre Island

• Longest undeveloped barrier island 80 miles
• South Padre Island 55 miles long, developed
  extensively
  
• North and South islands were connected until the
  Port Mansfield Channel was dredged in 1962

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Tides

• Microtidal 1.5 ft.

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Major bodies of water

• Galveston Bay- 600 sq/mileshighly
  developed..over 70 miles bulkheaded
  
• Matagorda Bay-1000 sq/km
• Laguna Madre- 609 sq/miles, 130 miles long, very
  shallow (avg. depth 2.5 ft.) and hypersaline
  

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Rivers

• Sabine River-555 miles long, highest discharge
  and strongest flow in Texas, empties into Sabine
  Pass
  
• Colorado River-600 miles long, drains into
  Matagorda Bay
  
• Brazos River- 840 miles long, empties into Gulf
  of Mexico, longest river in Texas
  
• Rio Grande- 5th largest river in North America,
  drains 40,000 sq/miles in Texas

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References

• http//www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
• http//prodweb.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/mustang
• http//www.nps.gov/pais
• http//tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov
• http//www.worldatlas.com
• http//areas.wildernet.com/pages/area