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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 ...
Any flow which is not laminar, i.e., the stream lines of the fluid, instead of remaining parallel, become confused and intermingled.
Industry:Engineering
The declivity from the offshore border of the continental shelf to oceanic depths. It is characterized by a marked increase in slope.
Industry:Engineering
An indented or wavy shoreline beach form, with the regular seaward- pointing parts rounded rather than sharp, as in the cuspate type.
Industry:Engineering
Point or area at which beach material is irretrievably lost from a coastal cell, such as an estuary, or a deep channel in the seabed.
Industry:Engineering
A tide that occurs at or near the time of new or full moon (syzygy) and which rises highest and falls lowest from the mean sea level.
Industry:Engineering
The section of the beach normally exposed to the action of the wave uprush. The foreshore of a beach. (Not synonymous with shoreface.)
Industry:Engineering
Pertaining to the wind, esp. used with deposits such as loess and dune sand, and sedimentary structures like wind-formed ripple marks.
Industry:Engineering
Pertaining to the wind, esp. used with deposits such as loess and dune sand, and sedimentary structures like wind-formed ripple marks.
Industry:Engineering
The periodic retardation in the time of occurrence of high and low water due to changes in the relative positions of the moon and sun.
Industry:Engineering
In mass wasting, movement along a curved surface in which the upper part moves vertically downward while the lower part moves outward.
Industry:Engineering
