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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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Potential energy of waves
Engineering; Coastal engineering
In a progressive oscillatory wave, the energy resulting from the elevation or depression of the water surface from the undisturbed level.
Structural geology
Engineering; Coastal engineering
The branch of geology concerned with the internal structure of bed rock and the shapes, arrangement, and interrelationships of rock units.
Weir jetty
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A jetty with a low section or weir over which littoral drift moves into a predredged deposition basin which is then dredged periodically.
Grading
Engineering; Coastal engineering
Distribution, with regard to size or weight, of individual stones within a bulk volume; heavy, light and fine grading are distinguished.
Moraine
Engineering; Coastal engineering
An accumulation of earth, stones, etc., deposited by a glacier, usually in the form of a mound, ridge or other prominence on the terrain.
Advance of a beach
Engineering; Coastal engineering
(1) A continuing seaward movement of the shoreline. (2) A net seaward movement of the shoreline over a specified time. Also progression.
Undulation
Engineering; Coastal engineering
A continuously propagated motion to and fro, in any fluid or elastic medium, with no permanent translation of the particles themselves.
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