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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 ...
Like a single stone or block. In coastal structures, the type of construction in which the structure's component parts are bound together to act as one.
Industry:Engineering
Physical and mineralogical decay processes in rock brought about by exposure to climatic conditions either at the present time or in the geological past.
Industry:Engineering
The offshore belt in which a coastal state has exclusive jurisdiction. The territorial sea may not extend more than 12 nautical miles from the coastline.
Industry:Engineering
An arrangement of particle sizes within a single bed, with coarse grains at the bottom of the bed and progressively finer grains toward the top of the bed.
Industry:Engineering
(1) Shelter, or the part or side sheltered or turned away from the wind or waves. (2) (Chiefly nautical) The quarter or region toward which the wind blows.
Industry:Engineering
A body of water made rough by waves meeting an opposing current, particularly a tidal current; often found where tidal currents are converging and sinking.
Industry:Engineering
Said of a clastic sediment or rock that consists of particles of many sizes mixed together in an unsystematic manner so that no one size class predominates.
Industry:Engineering
Said of a clastic sediment or rock that consists of particles of many sizes mixed together in an unsystematic manner so that no one size class predominates.
Industry:Engineering
(1) A specified location (in plan elevation) to which measurements are referred. (2) In beach material studies, a specified point within the reference zone.
Industry:Engineering
The thin wavy line of fine sand, mica scales, bits of seaweed, etc., left by the uprush when it recedes from its upward limit of movement on the beach face.
Industry:Engineering
