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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 assemblage of photographs, each of which shows part of a region, put together in such a way that each point in the region appears once and only once in the assemblage, and scale variation is minimized.
Industry:Engineering
The degree of inclination to the horizontal. Usually expressed as a ratio, such as 1:25, indicating one unit rise in 25 units of horizontal distance; or in a decimal fraction (0.04). Also called gradient.
Industry:Engineering
A terrace made along a coast by the action of waves and shore currents; it may become dry land by the uplifting of the shore or the lowering of the water. Also known as shore platform or wave-cut platform.
Industry:Engineering
(1) Marshy or muddy areas covered and uncovered by the rise and fall of the tide. A tidal marsh. (2) Marshy or muddy areas of the seabed which are covered and uncovered by the rise and fall of tidal water.
Industry:Engineering
Identical to apparent specific gravity, Ga = soil density ÷ density of water. “Apparent” means that the basis of measurement is the total soil volume including voids, not just the individual soil particles.
Industry:Engineering
The plain composed of horizontal or gently sloping strata of clastic materials, generally representing a strip of sea bottom that has emerged from the sea in recent geologic time. May extend inland many km.
Industry:Engineering
The alternating horizontal movement of water associated with the rise and fall of the tide caused by the astronomical tide-producing forces. Also current, periodic.
Industry:Engineering
A wind between a strong breeze and a storm. A continuous wind blowing in degrees of moderate, fresh, strong, or whole gale and varying in velocity from 28 to 47 nautical miles per hour.
Industry:Engineering
Sediment transport mode in which individual particles either roll or slide along the bed as a shallow, mobile layer a few particle diameters deep, the part of the load that is not continuously in suspension.
Industry:Engineering
Sediments of sand size or smaller which have been transported by winds. They may be recognized in marine deposits off desert coasts by the greater angularity of the grains compared with waterborne particles.
Industry:Engineering
