1.   Also, tidal power generators must be designed to withstand severe wave action and the corrosive effects of seawater.

2.   It then settled to the seafloor, below the level of wave action, where it accumulated as an enriched iron deposit.

3.   Because the material is thin and smooth, wave action causes it to burst, tugging on the line below.

4.   Bulkheads and seawalls are retaining walls built a short distance from shore to slow natural erosion of banks into water by reducing wave action on the beach.

5.   Even in dry years, wave action, tides, wind and rain gnaw a few inches from cliff faces.

6.   It accounts for the placid wave action along the white-sand beaches and the abundance of snorkeling and diving facilities throughout the region.

7.   Marsh and lake-bottom vegetation crucial to the fish and wildlife is being destroyed by wave action caused by the deeper water, Gornak said.

8.   Scientists say the melting ice brings more wave action, which gnaws away at ground that used to be frozen for most of the year.

9.   Wind, current and wave action make it impossible to equate one race with another by comparing boat speed and how fast each boat rounded the course.

10.   Also northeast facing coasts and beaches exposed to the open Atlantic will see increasing wave action over the next two days and may result in some minor beach erosion.