Needville, Fort Bend Co., Texas, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 29° 23' 54'' North , 95° 50' 15'' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 29.39856,-95.83753 |
KΓΆppen climate type: | Cfa : Humid subtropical climate |
An incorporated city.
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Pleistocene 0.0117 - 2.588 Ma ID: 3011199 | Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly sand Age: Pleistocene (0.0117 - 2.588 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Beaumont Formation Comments: (from Moore and Wermund, 1993a, 1993b) Yellowish- to brownish-gray, locally reddish orange, v. fine to fine quartz sand, silt, and minor fine gravel, intermixed and interbedded. Includes stream channel, point-bar, cravasse-splay, and natural levee ridge deposits, and clayey fill in abandoned channels. Forms poorly defined meander-belt ridges and pimple mounds aligned approx. normal to coast and 1-2 m higher than surround interdistributary silt and clay. Channel fill is dk-brn to brnish-dark-gray, laminated clay and silt, organic -rich. Includes marine delta-front sand, lagoonal clay, and near-shore marine sand beneath and landward of bays along the coast. Interfingers with the interdistributary facies of Beuamont Fm. and rests disconformably on Lissie Fm. Thickness 3-10 m on outcrop; thickens in southeastward in subsurface to more than 100 m. Lithology: Major:{sand}, Minor:{fine alluvium} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
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Localities in this Region
- Texas
- Fort Bend Co.
- Needville
- Fort Bend Co.