Water Transport Infrastructure

Marine architecture is the design of structures which support ship transport, fishing, coastal management or other marine activities. These structures include harbors, lighthouses, marinas and shipyards.

Coastal geography
Landforms
  • Anchialine pool
  • Avulsion
  • Archipelago
  • Atoll
  • Ayre
  • Barrier bar
  • Barrier island
  • Bay
  • Baymouth bar
  • Bight
  • Brackish marsh
  • Cape
  • Channel
  • Cliff
  • Cliffed coast
  • Cliff-top dune
  • Coast
  • Coastal plain
  • Coastal waterfall
  • Continental margin
  • Continental shelf
  • Coral reef
  • Cove
  • Dune
  • Estuary
  • Firth
  • Fjard
  • Fjord
  • Flat coast
  • Freshwater marsh
  • Fundus
  • Gat
  • Geo
  • Graded shoreline
  • Gulf
  • Headland
  • Inlet
  • Intertidal wetland
  • Island
  • Islet
  • Isthmus
  • Lagoon
  • Marine terrace
  • Mouth bar
  • Raised shoreline
  • Machair
  • Mega delta
  • Mudflat
  • Natural arch
  • Peninsula
  • Reef
  • Regressive delta
  • Ria
  • River delta
  • Rocky shore
  • Salt marsh
  • Shore
  • Sound
  • Stack
  • Steep coast
  • Strait
  • Strand plain
  • Submarine canyon
  • Tied island
  • Tidal island
  • Tidal marsh
  • Tide pool
  • Tombolo
  • More...


Beaches
  • Beach cusps
  • Beach evolution
  • Beach ridge
  • Beachrock
  • Modern recession of beaches
  • Pocket beach
  • Raised beach
  • Storm beach
  • Shingle beach
  • Wash margin
Processes
  • Blowhole
  • Coastal erosion
  • Concordant coastline
  • Current
  • Cuspate foreland
  • Discordant coastline
  • Emergent coastline
  • Feeder bluff
  • Fetch
  • Headlands and bays
  • Large-scale coastal behaviour
  • Longshore drift
  • Marine regression
  • Marine transgression
  • Rip current
  • Sea cave
  • Sea foam
  • Shoal
  • Spit
  • Submergent coastline
  • Surf break
  • Surf zone
  • Surge channel
  • Swash
  • Volcanic arc
  • Wave-cut platform
  • Wave shoaling
  • Wind wave
  • Wrack zone
Management
  • Coastal management
  • Accretion
  • Integrated coastal zone management
  • Submersion
Related
  • Bulkhead line
  • Coastline length
  • Intertidal zone
  • Littoral zone
  • Particle size
    • boulder
    • shingle
    • pebble
    • sand
    • silt
    • clay
  • Physical oceanography
  • Region of freshwater influence
  • Scree
  • More...

Famous quotes containing the words water and/or transport:

    The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.
    Chinese proverb.

    One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)