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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 ...
Tidal currents of increased velocity occurring monthly as the result of the moon being in perigee (i.e., at the point in its orbit nearest the Earth).
Industry:Engineering
A large division of Geology concerned with earth materials, changes of the surface and interior of the earth, and the forces that cause those changes.
Industry:Engineering
A prolongation of a land valley into or across a continental or insular shelf, which generally gives evidence of having been formed by stream erosion.
Industry:Engineering
A coral reef attached directly to an insular or continental shore. There may be a shallow channel or lagoon between the reef and the adjacent mainland.
Industry:Engineering
A drawing showing positions of wave crests and/or orthogonals in a given area for a specific deepwater wave period and direction.
Industry:Engineering
That molecular property of a fluid that enables it to support tangential stresses for a finite time and thus to resist deformation. Resistance to flow.
Industry:Engineering
That molecular property of a fluid that enables it to support tangential stresses for a finite time and thus to resist deformation. Resistance to flow.
Industry:Engineering
(1) Rapid erosion of the shore land by waves during a storm. (2) A sudden cutting off of land by flood, currents or change in course of a body of water.
Industry:Engineering
A condition in which the outflow jet from a river or coastal inlet and the water in the receiving basin are of the same density or are vertically mixed.
Industry:Engineering
The intersection of the tidal plane of mean high water with the shore. (Similar definitions apply to mean low water line and mean lower low water line).
Industry:Engineering
