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<br />. ~ ~ ~ <br />~u~~ <br /> <br />Flocculant - An agent that produces small aggregated masses of material <br />suspended in or precipitated from a liquid. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Flora - The plants of a specified region. <br /> <br />Focus - A unit of classification in the midwestern system for American <br />archeology constituting a group of components yielding artifacts <br />almost identical in those features determinative of type. <br /> <br />Forb - A broad-leaved flowering plant as distinguished from the grasses, <br />sedges, etc. <br /> <br />Forebay - The upper water impoundment from which water is discharged to <br />a hydroelectric generating plant. <br /> <br />Foreshore - A strip of land margining a body of water. e.g., a lake or <br />stream: the bottom land is intermittently.exposed when the reservoir <br />water level fluctuates. <br /> <br />3 <br />ft /s - Symbol for cubic feet per second (see c.f.s.). <br /> <br />Gabion - A cylinder filled with stones and sunk in water, used in laying <br />the foundations of a dam. <br /> <br />Geothermal - Of or pertaining to the earth's internal heat. <br /> <br />Graben - A block, generally long compared to ita width, that has been <br />lowered relative to the blocks on either side. It is bounded by <br />faults on its long sides. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Gypsiferous - A term applied to a sedimentary rock containing gyp.sum. <br /> <br />Headworks - Structur~ at tho heen of a channel for diverting water into it. <br /> <br />Herbaceous - Without persistent woody stems: dying to the ground each <br />year. <br /> <br />Hydrodynamics - A branch of hydromechanics that deals with the motion <br />of fluids and the forces acting on solid bodies immersed in fluids <br />and in motion relative to them. <br /> <br />Hydrology - The science dealing with water on the land, its properties, <br />laws, geographic distribution, etc. <br /> <br />Hypolimnion zone - Bottom layer of water (see stratification). <br /> <br />. <br />