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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 ...
Waters landward of the baseline (coastline) from which the marginal seas are measured and over which complete sovereignty is exercised. Also known as “internal waters.”
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An offshore consolidated rock hazard to navigation, with a least depth of about 20 meters (10 fathoms) or less. Often refers to coral fringing reefs in tropical waters.
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(1) (Law) All ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water mark. (2) The shore of the sea or ocean, often used in a general sense (e.g., to visit the seashore).
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A period of 19 years adopted by the National Ocean Service as the period over which observations of tides are to be taken and reduced to average values for tidal datums.
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An accumulation of debris (e.g. seaweed, driftwood and litter) cast up onto a beach, and lying along the limit of wave up rush. A shoreline above the present water level
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A steep, symmetrical wave whose crest forms an angle of 120 degrees and whose form is that of a cycloid. A trochoidal wave of maximum steepness. See also trochoidal wave.
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The distributing or spreading-out of molecules, atoms, or substances into a vacuum, fluid, or porous medium so that the concentration equalizes in all parts of the system
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A downward movement (sinking) of surface water caused by onshore Ekman transport, converging currents, or when a water mass becomes more dense than the surrounding water.
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A graphic record of the rise and fall of the tide. The record is in the form of a curve in which time is represented by abscissas and the height of the tide by ordinates.
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The time for a wave crest to traverse a distance equal to one wavelength. The time for two successive wave crests to pass a fixed point. See also significant wave period.
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