- Look up
earthwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Earthworks may
refer to:
Earthworks (archaeology), human-made
constructions that
modify the land...
- In agriculture, a
terrace is a
piece of
sloped plane that has been cut into a
series of
successively receding flat
surfaces or platforms,
which resemble...
-
Newark Earthworks in
Newark and Heath, Ohio,
consist of
three sections of
preserved earthworks: the
Great Circle Earthworks, the
Octagon Earthworks, and...
- archaeology,
earthworks are
artificial changes in land level,
typically made from
piles of
artificially placed or
sculpted rocks and soil.
Earthworks can themselves...
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Architectural Press. p. 18. ISBN 1-56898-040-X.
Earthworks on
Brian Aldiss's
official site
Earthworks title listing at the
Internet Speculative Fiction...
- fortifications—for
example breastworks—and
often known as
fieldworks or
earthworks, are
extemporized by
troops in the field,
perhaps ****isted by such local...
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excavation Typical earthworks include road construction,
railway beds, causeways, dams, levees, canals, and berms.
Other common earthworks are land grading...
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- In
civil engineering, a cut or
cutting is
where soil or rock from a
relative rise is removed. Cuts are
typically used in road, rail, and
canal construction...
- railway, or
landscape and
garden improvements, or
surface drainage. The
earthworks created for such a
purpose are
often called the sub-grade or finished...
