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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Flood mark

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Proof of any kind on the shoreline, or on structures like bridge abutments, used to determine the highest level attained by the water surface during the flood (note: the height of the flood mark ...

Members of marine seed plants that grow chiefly on sand or sand-mud bottom. They are most abundant in water less than 9 m deep. The common types are: eel grass (Zostera), turtle grass (Thallasia), ...

Laminar flow

Engineering; Coastal engineering

Slow, smooth flow, with each drop of water travelling a smooth path parallel to its neighbouring drops. Laminar flow is characteristic of low velocities, and particles of sediment in the flow zones ...

Solitary wave

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A wave consisting of a single elevation (above the original water surface), whose height is not necessarily small compared to the depth, and neither followed nor preceded by another elevation or ...

Strand

Engineering; Coastal engineering

(1) The shore or beach of the ocean or a large lake. The land bordering any large body of water, especially a sea or an arm of the ocean. (2) wharf, quay, or roadway along a water body, esp. in a ...

Box gauge

Engineering; Coastal engineering

A tide gauge that is operated by a float in a long vertical box to which the tide is admitted through an opening in the bottom. In the original type of box gauge the float supported a graduated rod ...

Backshore

Engineering; Coastal engineering

That zone of the shore or beach lying between the foreshore and the coastline comprising the berm or berms and acted upon by waves only during severe storms, especially when combined with ...