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  2. Blowhole (geology) - Wikipedia

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    A blowhole system always contains three main features: a catchment entrance, a compression cavern and an expelling port. The arrangement, angle and size of these three features determine the force of the air to water ratio that is ejected from the port. [6] The blowhole feature tends to occur in the most distal section of a littoral cave. As ...

  3. Geo (landform) - Wikipedia

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    Calder's Geo, Shetland Geo of Sclaites at Duncansby Head, Caithness. A geo or gio (/ ɡ j oʊ / GYOH, from Old Norse gjá [1]) is an inlet, a gully or a narrow and deep cleft in the face of a cliff. Geos are common on the coastline of the Shetland and Orkney islands.

  4. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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    Blowhole – Hole at the top of a sea-cave which allows waves to force water or spray out of the hole; Blowout – Depressions in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind; Bluff – Tall, near vertical rock face; Bornhardt – A large dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock; Braided channel – Network of river channels

  5. Blowhole - Wikipedia

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    Blowhole (anatomy), the hole at the top of a whale's or other cetacean's head; Blowhole (geology), a hole at the inland end of a sea cave Kiama Blowhole in Kiama, Australia; The Blow Hole, a marine passage between Minstrel and East Cracroft Islands in the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada; Blowhole Diversion Tunnel in Victoria, Australia

  6. Offshore geotechnical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing the principle of a cone penetrometer to obtain the soil's strength profile. Diagram showing the principle of a shear vane to measure the soil's peak strength and residual strength. Information on the mechanical strength of the soil can be obtained in situ (from the seabed itself as opposed to in a laboratory from a soil sample).

  7. List of abbreviations in oil and gas exploration and production

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    CCHT – core chart log; CCL – casing collar locator (in perforation or completion operations, the tool provides depths by correlation of the casing string's magnetic anomaly with known casing features) CCLBD – construction / commissioning logic block diagram; CCLP – casing collar locator perforation

  8. Spit (landform) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing a spit A spit contrasted with other coastal landforms. Curonian Spit, divided between Russia and Lithuania. A spit (cognate with the word for a rotisserie bar) or sandspit is a deposition bar or beach landform off coasts or lake shores.

  9. Groyne - Wikipedia

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    Groynes in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. 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.