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• Gravel pit — is the British English term for an open cast working for extraction of gravel (river deposited rounded stones). Gravel pits normally lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so they fill naturally with water to form ponds or lakes. Old …   Wikipedia

• Quarry — For other uses, see Quarry (disambiguation). A quarry is a type of open pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone, construction aggregate, riprap,… …   Wikipedia

• Gravel road — A gravel road, as often found in rural areas and lesser developed nations. A …   Wikipedia

• quarry — quarry1 quarriable, quarryable, adj. /kwawr ee, kwor ee/, n., pl. quarries, v., quarried, quarrying. n. 1. an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. 2. an… …   Universalium

• gravel pit — noun a quarry for gravel • Hypernyms: ↑pit, ↑quarry, ↑stone pit …   Useful english dictionary

• The Hagerman Horse Quarry — The Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is located west of Hagerman, Idaho at the geographic division of the Snake River Plain. The Hagerman Horse Quarry is an integral part of the monument and is located on the northern flank of Fossil Gulch… …   Wikipedia

• Boxgrove Quarry — 50.8575 0.71222222222221 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Dutchess Quarry Cave Site — U.S. National Register of Historic Places …   Wikipedia

• Dry Mesa Quarry — View from the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry overlooking Escalante Canyon The Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry is situated in southwestern Colorado, USA, near the town of Delta. Its geology forms a part of the Morrison Formation and has famously yielded a… …   Wikipedia

• Boxgrove Quarry — is a gravel quarry and Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site at Boxgrove in the English county of West Sussex.Parts of the site complex were excavated between 1983 and 1996 by a team led by Mark Roberts of University College London. The site is… …   Wikipedia

• Whitlingham Quarry — is located at Whitlingham close to Norwich, Norfolk, England. The quarry is owned and run by Larfarge Aggregates. The River Yare is just south of the quarry. The flooded gravel workings are known as the Great Broad and Little Broad and form part… …   Wikipedia