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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
The process of breaking up or sloughing when an indurated soil is exposed to air.
Industry:Engineering
The molecular forces which cause the movement of water through very small spaces.
Industry:Engineering
Any level surface taken as a plane of reference from which to measure elevations.
Industry:Engineering
The difference between the major and minor principal stresses in a triaxial test.
Industry:Engineering
Metamorphic rock that displays distinct banding of light and dark mineral layers.
Industry:Engineering
The mechanism by which a bucket or blade is lifted, or the process of lifting it.
Industry:Engineering
A stream that has cut its channel into the bed of the valley through degradation.
Industry:Engineering
Organism, species, or community which indicates certain environmental conditions.
Industry:Engineering
Rock composed of a complex mixture of metamorphic rock and igneous granitic rock.
Industry:Engineering
Usually removal of soil or rock having value because of its chemical composition.
Industry:Engineering
