Groyne, the Glossary
A groyne (in the U.S. groin) is a rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore (in coastal engineering) or a river bank, interrupting water flow and limiting the movement of sediment.[1]
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70 relations: Anna Maria Island, Arabian Sea, Aramoana, Aswan, Barrier island, Beach, Beach evolution, Beach nourishment, Bioerosion, Blowhole (geology), Breakwater (structure), Bridge scour, Brighton, Cataracts of the Nile, Chennai, Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Coastal development hazards, Coastal engineering, Coastal erosion, Coastal geography, Coastal management, Coastal morphodynamics, Coastal sediment supply, Crescent Beach, Surrey, Deposition (geology), Drop structure, Egypt, England, Erosion, Gabion, Great storm of 1703, Headland, Hydraulic structure, Ice jam, Integrated coastal zone management, Intertidal zone, Jetty, Late Latin, Longshore drift, Malabar Coast, Meander, Mole (architecture), Natural arch, Netherlands, Nile, Nubia, Old French, Otago Harbour, Permeability (materials science), Pozhikara, ... Expand index (20 more) »
- Coastal erosion
Anna Maria Island
Anna Maria Island is a barrier island on the coast of Manatee County, Florida, in the United States.
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Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea (हिन्दी|Hindī: सिंधु सागर, baḥr al-ʿarab) is a region of sea in the northern Indian Ocean, bounded on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel, on the northwest by Gulf of Oman and Iran, on the north by Pakistan, on the east by India, and on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldives, on the southwest by Somalia.
Aramoana
Aramoana is a small coastal settlement north of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand.
Aswan
Aswan (also; ʾAswān; Ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ) is a city in Southern Egypt, and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
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Barrier island
Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the mainland coast.
Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
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Beach evolution
Beach evolution occurs at the shoreline where sea, lake or river water is eroding the land.
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Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment (also referred to as beach renourishment, beach replenishment, or sand replenishment) describes a process by which sediment, usually sand, lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced from other sources.
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Bioerosion
Bioerosion describes the breakdown of hard ocean substrates – and less often terrestrial substrates – by living organisms.
Blowhole (geology)
In geology, a blowhole or marine geyser is formed as sea caves grow landward and upward into vertical shafts and expose themselves toward the surface, which can result in hydraulic compression of seawater that is released through a port from the top of the blowhole.
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Breakwater (structure)
A breakwater is a permanent structure constructed at a coastal area to protect against tides, currents, waves, and storm surges. Groyne and breakwater (structure) are coastal construction.
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Bridge scour
Bridge scour is the removal of sediment such as sand and gravel from around bridge abutments or piers.
Brighton
Brighton is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the city of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England.
Cataracts of the Nile
The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or whitewater rapids) of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets.
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Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
The Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) is a private, nonprofit organization created in 1971.
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Coastal development hazards
A coastal development hazard is something that affects the natural environment by human activities and products.
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Coastal engineering
Coastal engineering is a branch of civil engineering concerned with the specific demands posed by constructing at or near the coast, as well as the development of the coast itself. Groyne and Coastal engineering are coastal construction.
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Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms. Groyne and Coastal erosion are coastal construction.
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Coastal geography
Coastal geography is the study of the constantly changing region between the ocean and the land, incorporating both the physical geography (i.e. coastal geomorphology, climatology and oceanography) and the human geography (sociology and history) of the coast.
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Coastal management
Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Groyne and Coastal management are coastal construction.
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Coastal morphodynamics
Coastal morphodynamics refers to the study of the interaction and adjustment of the seafloor topography and fluid hydrodynamic processes, seafloor morphologies, and sequences of change dynamics involving the motion of sediment.
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Coastal sediment supply
Coastal sediment supply is the transport of sediment to the beach environment by both fluvial and aeolian transport.
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Crescent Beach, Surrey
Crescent Beach is a beachside community within the South Surrey town centre of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada next to Boundary Bay and Mud Bay, across from Delta, British Columbia.
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Deposition (geology)
Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.
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Drop structure
A drop structure, also known as a grade control, sill, or weir, is a manmade structure, typically small and built on minor streams, or as part of a dam's spillway, to pass water to a lower elevation while controlling the energy and velocity of the water as it passes over.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Gabion
A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.
Great storm of 1703
The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 November 1703.
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Headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.
Hydraulic structure
A hydraulic structure is a structure submerged or partially submerged in any body of water, which disrupts the natural flow of water.
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Ice jam
Ice jams occur when a topographic feature of the river causes floating river ice to accumulate and impede further progress downstream with the river current.
Integrated coastal zone management
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), integrated coastal management (ICM), or integrated coastal planning is a coastal management process for the management of the coast using an integrated approach, regarding all aspects of the coastal zone, including geographical and political boundaries, in an attempt to achieve sustainability.
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Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range.
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Jetty
A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. Groyne and jetty are coastal construction.
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Late Latin
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.
Longshore drift
Longshore drift from longshore current is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, pebbles, sand, shingle, shells) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on the angle of incoming wave direction. Groyne and longshore drift are coastal erosion.
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Malabar Coast
The Malabar Coast is the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.
Meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse.
Mole (architecture)
A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway separating two bodies of water.
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Natural arch
A natural arch, natural bridge, or (less commonly) rock arch is a natural landform where an arch has formed with an opening underneath.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
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Nubia
Nubia (Nobiin: Nobīn) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Otago Harbour
Otago Harbour is the natural harbour of Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of a long, much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating the Otago Peninsula from the mainland.
Permeability (materials science)
Permeability in fluid mechanics, materials science and Earth sciences (commonly symbolized as k) is a measure of the ability of a porous material (often, a rock or an unconsolidated material) to allow fluids to pass through it.
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Pozhikara
Pozhikkara or Pozhikara is the Western border town of the Paravur municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala state in India.
Raised beach
A raised beach, coastal terrace,Pinter, N (2010): 'Coastal Terraces, Sealevel, and Active Tectonics' (educational exercise), from or perched coastline is a relatively flat, horizontal or gently inclined surface of marine origin,Pirazzoli, PA (2005a): 'Marine Terraces', in Schwartz, ML (ed) Encyclopedia of Coastal Science.
Rhine
--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.
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River morphology
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time.
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Sand dune stabilization
Sand dune stabilization is a coastal management practice designed to prevent erosion of sand dunes.
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Sandbag
A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such purposes as flood control, military fortification in trenches and bunkers, shielding glass windows in war zones, ballast, counterweight, and in other applications requiring mobile fortification, such as adding improvised additional protection to armored vehicles or tanks.
Seawall
A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.
Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Sediment transport
Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and the movement of the fluid in which the sediment is entrained.
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Snout
A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.
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Strand plain
A strand plain or strandplain is a broad belt of sand along a shoreline with a surface exhibiting well-defined parallel or semi-parallel sand ridges separated by shallow swales.
Submersion (coastal management)
Submersion is the sustainable cyclic portion of coastal erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged nearshore region, and later return to the original visible portion of the beach.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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Thomas Digges
Thomas Digges (c. 1546 – 24 August 1595) was an English mathematician and astronomer.
Training (civil)
Training or entrance training refers to coastal structures built to constrain a river discharging across a littoral coast so that it discharges only where desired. Groyne and training (civil) are coastal construction.
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Vistula
The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.
Waal (river)
The Waal (Dutch name) is the main distributary branch of the river Rhine flowing approximately through the Netherlands.
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland.
Wave-cut platform
A wave-cut platform, shore platform, coastal bench, or wave-cut cliff is the narrow flat area often found at the base of a sea cliff or along the shoreline of a lake, bay, or sea that was created by erosion.
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Wing dam
A wing dam or wing dike is a man made barrier that, unlike a conventional dam, only extends partway into a river.
See also
Coastal erosion
- Bruun rule
- Cliff stabilization
- Coastal erosion
- Dynamic revetment
- Groyne
- Hudson's equation
- Land loss
- Longshore drift
- Paorae
- Rónadh Cox
- Van der Meer formula
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groyne
Also known as Coastal groin, Groin (hydrology), Groyne Field, Groynes, Terminal groin.
, Raised beach, Rhine, River morphology, Sand dune stabilization, Sandbag, Seawall, Sediment, Sediment transport, Snout, Strand plain, Submersion (coastal management), Sudan, The Jerusalem Post, Thomas Digges, Training (civil), Vistula, Waal (river), Warsaw, Wave-cut platform, Wing dam.