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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 ...
Dry land area above and landward of the ordinary high water mark (OHWM). Often used as a general term to mean high land far from the coast and in the interior of the country.
Industry:Engineering
The difference in height of the two high waters or of the two low waters of each day. Also, the difference in velocity between the two daily flood or ebb currents of each day.
Industry:Engineering
A waterway used to divert water from its natural course. The term is generally applied to a temporary arrangement, e.g. to by-pass water around a dam site during construction.
Industry:Engineering
A sheet on which field control and hydrographic data such as soundings, depth curves, and regions surveyed with a wire drag are plotted before the production of a final chart.
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A wave, the crest length of which is of the same order of magnitude as the wave length. A system of short-crested waves has the appearance of hills being separated by troughs.
Industry:Engineering
A layer of weathered, unconsolidated material on top of bed rock; in geologic usage, usually defined as containing organic matter and being capable of supporting plant growth.
Industry:Engineering
Situated so that the top is intermittently washed by waves or tidal action. Condition of being exposed or just bare at any stage of the tide between high water and chart datum.
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A submerged or emerged embankment of sand, gravel, or other unconsolidated material built on the sea floor in shallow water by waves and currents.
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The composition or character of the bed of an ocean or other body of water (e.g., clay, coral, gravel, mud, ooze, pebbles, rock, shell, shingle, hard, or soft).
Industry:Engineering
The zone within which waves approaching the coastline commence breaking, typically in water depths of between 5 and 10 meters for ocean coasts, but sometimes in shallower water.
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