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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 ...
The line dividing inland waters and the territorial sea at the mouth of a river, bay, or harbor.
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Any permanent line, plane or surface used as a reference datum to which elevations are referred.
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A series of groins acting together to protect a section of beach. Commonly called a groin field.
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The ratio of the mean depth to the horizontal distance over which the mean depth was determined.
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A beach or fillet of sand retained above the otherwise normal profile level by a submerged dike.
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The amount of time by which corresponding tidal phases grow later day by day (about 50 minutes).
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(1) Loose angular waterworn stones along a beach. (2) Rough, irregular fragments of broken rock.
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The rush of water up the foreshore following the breaking of a wave, also called swash or runup.
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A large recurved spit with secondary spits developed at its end. Example: Sandy Hook, New Jersey.
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The initial action of a deepwater wave, in response to the bottom, upon running into shoal water.
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