Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's preface
- List of contributors
- I Introduction
- II Studies of palynosedimentation in modern environments
- 2 The sorting of spores and pollen by water: experimental and field evidence
- 3 Transport and deposition of pollen in an estuary: signature of the landscape
- 4 Pollen preservation in alkaline soils of the American Southwest
- 5 Wind and water transport and sedimentation of miospores along two rivers subject to major floods and entering the Mediterranean Sea at Calvi (Corsica, France)
- 6 Sedimentation of land-derived palynomorphs in the Trinity–Galveston Bay area, Texas
- 7 The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal environments
- 8 Palynofacies of some recent marine sediments: the role of transportation
- 9 Maceral palynofacies of the Louisiana deltaic plain in terms of organic constituents and hydrocarbon potential
- 10 Organic sedimentation in a carbonate region
- 11 An approach to a standard terminology for palynodebris
- 12 Relationships of palynofacies to coal-depositional environments in the upper Paleocene of the Gulf Coast Basin, Texas, and the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming
- III Reconstruction of late Cenozoic vegetation and sedimentary environments from palynological data
- IV Application of data on palynosedimentation to solution of geological problems
- V Appendix
- Index
6 - Sedimentation of land-derived palynomorphs in the Trinity–Galveston Bay area, Texas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's preface
- List of contributors
- I Introduction
- II Studies of palynosedimentation in modern environments
- 2 The sorting of spores and pollen by water: experimental and field evidence
- 3 Transport and deposition of pollen in an estuary: signature of the landscape
- 4 Pollen preservation in alkaline soils of the American Southwest
- 5 Wind and water transport and sedimentation of miospores along two rivers subject to major floods and entering the Mediterranean Sea at Calvi (Corsica, France)
- 6 Sedimentation of land-derived palynomorphs in the Trinity–Galveston Bay area, Texas
- 7 The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal environments
- 8 Palynofacies of some recent marine sediments: the role of transportation
- 9 Maceral palynofacies of the Louisiana deltaic plain in terms of organic constituents and hydrocarbon potential
- 10 Organic sedimentation in a carbonate region
- 11 An approach to a standard terminology for palynodebris
- 12 Relationships of palynofacies to coal-depositional environments in the upper Paleocene of the Gulf Coast Basin, Texas, and the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming
- III Reconstruction of late Cenozoic vegetation and sedimentary environments from palynological data
- IV Application of data on palynosedimentation to solution of geological problems
- V Appendix
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The research presented here was originally done in 1958–1962, when I was working for Shell Development Company in Houston, Texas. It represents the final segment of investigations I carried out for Shell on the palynology of modern sediments. The basic information for this last sub-project was submitted to Shell as an internal report after I left the company in 1962. The overall project included studies of a carbonate platform (the Great Bahama Bank; Traverse & Ginsburg, 1966), and the Trinity River – Trinity Bay – Galveston Bay clastic depositional complex of Texas (Traverse, 1990, 1992). The lower Trinity river system was selected for study because: (1) the river system was at that time relatively natural, undisturbed by dams, (2) Shell Development Company geologists had studied sedimentation in the area, and (3) the lower river and associated bays were easily accessible from my place of employment.
That these research results are presented so long after they were obtained can be justified only in that they represent a previously unpublished, unique data-set for a medium-sized relatively undisturbed river and associated bays, smaller streams, and adjacent near shore parts of the Gulf of Mexico. Inasmuch as I have published results of studies of palynomorphs in the water of part of the area (Traverse, 1990,1992), it also seems desirable to complete the story by presenting information available for the palynomorph content of surface sediment of the region. It should be emphasized that throughout this chapter I deal with the status of palynomorph sedimentation in the area as it was about 1960.
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