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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 ...
Phenomenon of relative flow within water due to difference in density. For example, the salt-water wedge is a density current, as is a volcanic nuée ardente.
Industry:Engineering
A component of a sediment deposit that is unique to a particular source and can be used to identify the source and transport routes to a place of deposition.
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(1) A level or gently sloping erosion plane inclined seaward. (2) A nearly horizontal area at about the level of maximum high water on the sea side of a dike.
Industry:Engineering
Short, rough waves tumbling with a short and quick motion. Short-crested waves that may spring up quickly in a moderate breeze, and break easily at the crest.
Industry:Engineering
The ability of a wind or water current to transport detritus, in terms of particle size rather than amount, measured as the diameter of the largest particles.
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A more or less continuous line of cliffs or steep slopes facing in one general direction which are caused by erosion or faulting. Also scarp.
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A large body of ice moving slowly down a slope of valley or spreading outward on a land surface (e.g., Greenland, Antarctica) and surviving from year to year.
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The line where the established low water datum intersects the shore. The plane of reference that constitutes the low water datum differs in different regions.
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A wave in which the water particles are permanently displaced to a significant degree in the direction of wave travel. Distinguished from an oscillatory wave.
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A relatively narrow, deep depression with steep slopes, the bottom of which grades continuously downward. May be underwater (submarine) or on land (subaerial).
Industry:Engineering
