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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 ...
The branch of geology concerned with the internal structure of bed rock and the shapes, arrangement, and interrelationships of rock units.
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A horizontal or nearly horizontal natural or artificial topographic feature interrupting a steeper slope, sometimes occurring in a series.
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(1) The front of a wave as it advances shoreward, after it has broken. (2) Lines of foam such as those which move around the head of a rip.
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An approximation to the plane of mean low water that has been adopted as a standard reference plane. See also datum, plane and chart datum.
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A long, heavy timber or section of concrete or metal that is driven or jetted into the earth or seabed to serve as a support or protection.
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An indefinite term, sometimes considered to denote one of a series of long-crested, large waves which roll in on a shore, as after a storm.
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A ring-shaped coral reef, often carrying low sand islands, enclosing a shallow lagoon. The reef is surrounded by deep water of the open sea.
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A mark of permanent character close to a survey station, to which it is related by an accurately measured distance and azimuth (or bearing).
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A flowing mass of sediment-laden water that is heavier than clear water and therefore flows downslope along the bottom of the sea or a lake.
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The ratio of the wave height at a selected point to the deepwater wave height. The refraction coefficient multiplied by the shoaling factor.
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