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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 ...
Single wave condition producing the same net longshore drift as a given proportion of the annual wave climate.
Industry:Engineering
A breakwater built towards the seaward limit of the littoral zone, parallel (or nearly parallel) to the shore.
Industry:Engineering
Channel located on ebb-tidal shoal that carries the flood tide over the tidal flat into the back bay or lagoon.
Industry:Engineering
A coast in which formerly dry land has been recently drowned, either by land subsidence or a rise in sea level.
Industry:Engineering
A low dam or wall across a stream to raise the upstream water level. Termed fixed crest weir when uncontrolled.
Industry:Engineering
A term applied to shelves on which older shelf sediments are primarily being reworked by modern shelf processes.
Industry:Engineering
The horizontal distance (in the direction of the wind) over which a wind generates seas or creates a wind setup.
Industry:Engineering
A narrow, deep, steep-walled inlet of the sea, usually formed by entrance of the sea into a deep glacial trough.
Industry:Engineering
In mass wasting, movement of a descending mass along a plane approximately parallel to the slope of the surface.
Industry:Engineering
An isolated, pillar-like rocky island isolated from a nearby headland by wave erosion; a needle or chimney rock.
Industry:Engineering
