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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Drift

Engineering; Coastal engineering

(1) Sometimes used as a short form for littoral drift. (2) The speed at which a current runs. (3) Floating material deposited on a beach (driftwood). (4) A deposit of a continental ice sheet; e.g., a ...

Far-infragravity

Engineering; Coastal engineering

The frequency band (nominally 0.001 - 0.02 Hz) occupied by shear instabilities of the longshore current. This band falls both below and in the lower part of the Infragravity band occupied by ...

Anoxic

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Refers to an environment that contain little or no dissolved oxygen and hence little or no benthic marine life. These conditions arise in some basins or fjords where physical circulation of seawater ...

Phi grade scale

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A logarithmic transformation of the Wentworth grade scale for size classifications of sediment grains based on the negative logarithm to the base 2 of the particle diameter: = -log2d.

Clay

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A fine grained, plastic, sediment with a typical grain size less than 0.004 mm. Possesses electromagnetic properties which bind the grains together to give a bulk strength or cohesion.

Reference zone

Engineering; Coastal engineering

In regard to beach measuring procedure, the part of the foreshore subject to wave action (between the Limit of uprush and the Limit of backwash) at mid-tide stage. In areas of great tidal range a ...

High water (HW)

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Maximum height reached by a rising tide. The height may be solely due to the periodic tidal forces or it may have superimposed upon it the effects of prevailing meteorological conditions. ...