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The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency with a mission to provide vital public engineering services in peace and war to strengthen the nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters. It is also a major U.S. Army organization employing some 38,000 ...
An epoch of the quaternary period, from the end of the pleistocene, about 8,000 years ago, to the present time. Syn: Recent.
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An elongate depression or series of depressions extending along the lower beach or in the offshore zone inside the breakers.
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The science of deducing the physical dimensions of objects from measurements on images (usually photographs) of the objects.
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Pertaining to the lagoon-marsh-tidal creek complex in the lee of a coastal barrier island, barrier spit, or baymouth barrier.
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The short-crested waves that may spring up quickly in a moderate breeze, and which break easily at the crest. Also wind chop.
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In laboratory usage, the full-scale structure, concept, or phenomenon used as a basis for constructing a scale model or copy.
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Rubble mound structure with horizontal berm of armor stones at about sea level, which is allowed to be (re)shaped by the waves.
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The part of a rip current that has widened out seaward of the breakers. See also current, rip; current, feeder; and neck (RIP).
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A measured depth of water. On hydrographic charts the soundings are adjusted to a specific plane of reference (sounding datum).
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Quarried or artificially-broken rock for use in construction, either as aggregate or cut into shaped blocks as dimension stone.
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