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| show | Circular moving currents that occur within a single ocean basin.
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| show | is a term used to describe deep-ocean circulation, due to seawater density
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| show | the lowest part of the wave above the average water line.
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| show | Is the vertical distance between wave crest and trough.
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| show | This is the time it takes once wavelength to pass fixed length.
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| show | This is a collective term for breakers.
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| show | Water moving along in waves or with a rushing movement.
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| show | The slowing and bending of waves in shallow water.
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| show | The transport of sediment in a zigzag pattern along a beach caused by the uprush of water from obliquely breaking waves.
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| show | An artificial structure built to protect a coast or to prevent the movement of sand along a beach.
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| show | A coast where land was formerly below sea level has been exposed either because of crustal uplift or a drop of sea level, or both
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| show | Periodic change in the elevation of the ocean surface.
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| show | A tidal pattern exhibiting one high tide and one low tide during a tidal day; a daily tide.
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| show | A tidal pattern exhibiting two high tides and two low tides per tidal day, with
small inequalities between successive highs and successive lows; a semi-daily tide.
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