Share on Facebook coastal engineering [′kōs·təl en·jə′nir·iŋ] (civil engineering) A branch of civil engineering pertaining to the study of the action of the seas on shorelines and to the design of structures to protect against this action. ...
the first fully fledged urban centres had developed, with as prime example the city of Rome; and the Archaic to Roman period that saw the spread of the city over large parts of Italy's coastal plains and valleys, at first notable in Magna Graecia and Etruria and thereafter as part of Rom...
If enacted in the U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Model, these amplification models will reduce predicted short-period (<1 s) and increase predicted long-period (>1 s) ground motions in the Coastal Plains appreciably.Boyd, Oliver S....
Recall from the chapter on Plate Tectonics that the ocean floor is not flat: mid-ocean ridges, deep sea trenches, and other features all rise sharply above or plunge deeply below the abyssal plains. In fact, Earth’s tallest mountain is Mauna Kea volcano, which rises 10,203 m (33,476 ...
R. et al. Groundwater depletion and sustainability of irrigation in the US High Plains and Central Valley. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 9320–9325 (2012). Article Google Scholar Taylor, R. G. et al. Ground water and climate change. Nat. Clim. Change 3, 322–329 (2013). ...
Region NCCA administrative divisions US EPA 2015 EMAP EMAP biogeographic province Holland 1990 BioGeo Biogeographic subregions based on benthic ecology literature Engle and Summers, 1999, Engle and Summers, 2000, Blanchette et al., 2008, Hale, 2010 Latitude Latitude, decimal degrees Longitude Longitu...
(i.e. loss reduction % is >0). The changes are shown across the 12 states on the US Atlantic coast affected by the hurricane. In the legend, ‘0’ values refer to all areas where loss difference is <0.5% of the damage for “Wetlands Present”. The map is produced with the results...
Hypotheses of refugia along the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains are consistent with indicated areas of highest predicted suitability in the niche-based distribution models. The character map of haplotypes by region, illustrates a disproportionate number of haplotypes from these areas on the phylogeny (...
Hillaire-Marcel and Fairbridge35 demonstrated the reliability of beach-ridge plains as indicators of glacio-isostatic uplift and climate variability. While their ability as indicators of glacio-isostatic uplift is related to the average elevation of the explored ridges through time and space, their ...
1 Map of model performance during model calibration. Green lines indicate segments in which the modelled sediment balances match the observed trends in wetland elevation change relative to sea-level rise3,4,19. Red segments indicate model mismatches. The frequency distributions for total suspended ...