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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 ...
Slow, smooth flow, with each drop of water traveling a smooth path parallel to its neighboring drops. Laminar flow is characteristic of low velocities, and particles of sediment in the flow zones are moved by rolling or saltation.
Industry:Engineering
In regard to beach measuring procedure, the part of the foreshore subject to wave action (between the Limit of uprush and the Limit of backwash) at mid-tide stage. In areas of great tidal range a more complex definition is needed.
Industry:Engineering
A tide gauge that is operated by a float in a long vertical box to which the tide is admitted through an opening in the bottom. In the original type of box gauge the float supported a graduated rod which rose and fell with the tide.
Industry:Engineering
A coral-algal mound or ridge of in-place coral colonies and skeletal fragments, carbonate sand, and organically-secreted calcium carbonate. A coral reef is built up around a wave-resistant framework, usually of older coral colonies.
Industry:Engineering
(1) The extreme end of a cape, or the outer end of any land area protruding into the water, usually less prominent than a cape. (2) A low profile shoreline promontory of more or less triangular shape, the top of which extends seaward.
Industry:Engineering
A mound of random-shaped and random-placed stones protected with a cover layer of selected stones or specially shaped concrete armor units. (Armor units in a primary cover layer may be placed in an orderly manner or dumped at random.)
Industry:Engineering
Tables which give daily predictions of the times and heights of the tide. These predictions are usually supplemented by tidal differences and constants by means of which additional predictions can be obtained for numerous other places.
Industry:Engineering
An almost vertical slope along the beach caused by erosion by wave action. It may vary in height from a few cm to a meter or so, depending on wave action and the nature and composition of the beach.
Industry:Engineering
The process by which water flows through the interstices of a sediment. Specifically, in wave phenomena, the process by which wave action forces water through the interstices of the bottom sediment and which tends to reduce wave heights.
Industry:Engineering
A minor sluggish waterway or estuarial creek, tributary to, or connecting, other streams or bodies of water, whose course is usually through lowlands or swamps. Sometimes called slough. Term is commonly used in the southern United States.
Industry:Engineering
