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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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Lead line
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A line, wire, or cord used in sounding (to obtain water depth). It is weighted at one end with a plummet (sounding lead). Also sounding line.
Wharf
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A structure built on the shore of a harbor, river, or canal, so that vessels may lie alongside to receive and discharge cargo and passengers.
Buoyancy
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The resultant of upward forces, exerted by the water on a submerged or floating body, equal to the weight of the water displaced by this body.
Foundation blanket
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A layer or layers of graded fine stones underlying a breakwater, groyne or rock embankment to prevent the natural bed material from being washed away.
Phreatic level
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Upper surface of an unconfined aquifer (e.g. the top sand layer in a dike) at which the pressure in the groundwater is equal to atmospheric pressure.
Wicker faggot
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Bundles of twigs or sticks, often willow, used in building earthworks or levees (traditional practise in Holland and China.). Alternate term: fascine
Dredged channel
Engineering; Coastal engineering
An artificially maintained sea lane extending from an inland water body into the marginal sea to accomodate vessel traffic through coastal shallows.
