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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Still-water level (SWL)

Engineering; Coastal engineering

The surface of the water if all wave and wind action were to cease. In deep water this level approximates the midpoint of the wave height. In shallow water it is nearer to the trough than the crest. ...

Bayou

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A minor sluggish waterway or estuarial creek, tributary to, or connecting, other streams or bodies of water, whose course is usually through lowlands or swamps. Sometimes called slough. Term is ...

Shear instabilities

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Instabilities of the surf zone longshore current commonly found on beaches with barred depth profiles. These instabilities are vertical motions with little surface elevation expression. Conservation ...

Rubble-mound structure

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A mound of random-shaped and random-placed stones protected with a cover layer of selected stones or specially shaped concrete armour units. (Armor units in a primary cover layer may be placed in an ...

Point

Engineering; Coastal engineering

(1) The extreme end of a cape, or the outer end of any land area protruding into the water, usually less prominent than a cape. (2) A low profile shoreline promontory of more or less triangular ...

Coral reef

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A coral-algal mound or ridge of in-place coral colonies and skeletal fragments, carbonate sand, and organically-secreted calcium carbonate. A coral reef is built up around a wave-resistant framework, ...

Beach scarp

Engineering; Coastal engineering

An almost vertical slope along the beach caused by erosion by wave action. It may vary in height from a few cm to a metre or so, depending on wave action and the nature and composition of the beach.