Environmental Studies, South Texas Outer Continental Shelf, 1975-1977. Volume III. Study Area Final Reports

摘要

This study of the South Texas Outer Continental Shelf (STOCS) was conducted on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management and with the close cooperation of personnel of that agency. The results reported on herein constituted a synthesis of three years of an environmental studies program of the STOCS. This study was part of an overall program that included the other elements of (1) geology and geophysics by the U.S. Geological Survey, (2) fisheries resources and ichthyoplankton populations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Marine Fisheries Service, and (3) biological and chemical characteristics of selected topographic features in the northern Gulf of Mexico by Texas A and M University.