Coastal engineering

Coastal engineering

A branch of civil engineering that applies engineering principles specifically to projects within the coastal zone including areas nearshore, estuary, marine, and shoreline.

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High seas

Engineering; Coastal engineering

This term, in municipal and international law, denotes the continuous body of salt water in the world that is navigable in its character and that lies outside territorial waters and maritime belts of ...

Drift sector

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A particular reach of marine shore in which littoral drift may occur without significant interruption, and which contain any and all natural sources of such drift, and also any accretion shore forms ...

Sand bypassing

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Hydraulic or mechanical movement of sand from the accreting updrift side to the eroding downdrift side of an inlet or harbour entrance. The hydraulic movement may include natural movement as well as ...

Bedrock

Engineering; Coastal engineering

The solid rock that underlies gravel, soil, and other superficial material. Bedrock may be exposed at the surface (an outcrop) or it may br buried under a few centimetres to thousands of metres of ...

Estuary

Engineering; Coastal engineering

(1) The part of a river that is affected by tides. (2) The region near a river mouth in which the fresh water of the river mixes with the salt water of the sea and which received both fluvial and ...

Periodic current

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A current caused by the tide-producing forces of the moon and the sun; a part of the same general movement of the sea that is manifested in the vertical rise and fall of the tides.

Tide tables

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Tables which give daily predictions of the times and heights of the tide. These predictions are usually supplemented by tidal differences and constants by means of which additional predictions can be ...