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Ancient Landscapes of South Texas - Related Links

  • La Villa Meteorite
  • 43 MYA Gulf of Mexico Shoreline
    • Roma Sandstone
    • Roma Bluffs - Historic District
    • Roma Sandstone - Chapeno Rapids
    • Mortar Holes
    • San Ygnacio Trevino Fort
    • Giant Oysters
    • Oligocene Shoreline
    • Coal
  • 27 MYA Catahoula Volcanic Ash
    • Catahoula Volcanic Ash
    • El Sauz Chert
    • Petrified Wood
    • Pozzolana - Falcon Dam
  • Goliad Gravels
  • La Sal del Rey
  • Modern Shorelines
    • Tidal Flats & Algal Mats
  • South Texas Sand Sheet
    • Sand Dunes
    • Deflation Troughs
    • Norias - Hand-Dug Water Wells
    • Wind Turbines
  • Pleistocene Megafauna
    • Late Pleistocene Delta
    • Giant Tortoise Fossils
  • The Rio Grande
    • Resacas
    • Montezuma Cypress Tree
    • Rio Rico
  • Caliche

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Ancient Landscapes of South Texas Program
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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LAMR 1.103
Conference Room LAMR 1.104
Email: chaps@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-3231

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Ancient Landscapes of South Texas

Ancient Landscapes - Exploring South Texas through Time

Libraries are replete with travel literature focusing on specific topics like roadside geology, plants and wildlife, and history of a region (e.g., Brush 2005; Miller et al. 2018; Spearing 1979). Few have sought to take the interdisciplinary approach of the naturalists of the past e.g., Longoria 1997, 2000, 2017). That is to consider the nexus between natural and cultural history. James Burke’s Connections television series provided an “Alternative View of Change.” The proposed book Exploring Ancient Landscapes of South Texas will take this rare approach to illuminate the broad scope of how natural forces shaped South Texas and its inhabitants and how during the Anthropocene its inhabitants are shaping the landscape. This is story or a region of Texas and the United States that is unique and largely unknown in American cultural and natural history.

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