Brickearth deposits are common in the valley around Betchworth and east of Dorking.

Guards stood watch at the quarry as the prisoners cut the rock into gravel and loaded it onto barges located at the base of the cliff atop the pass's waters.

On the other side of the Lackawanna River, sand and gravel quarry operations continue to spoil what was once a beautiful landscape and riverway.

It begins at a gravel quarry off Highway 26, just beyond the town's western limit, and follows the Palouse River westward, traversing cow pastures, pine woods, wetlands, and basalt cliffs.

The quarry at FSP provided granite for the foundation of the state capitol building and much of the gravel used in the early construction of California's roads.

Quicksand and warning sign at a gravel quarry.

Créteil Lake began as a gypsum and gravel quarry.

A local attraction is The Nature Discovery Centre situated at Thatcham Lake, a flooded gravel quarry near to the Thatcham Reed Beds.

The site lies within the wider Nosterfield quarry area being exploited for gravel by Tarmac Northern Ltd.

There is also a spinney, which was a gravel quarry in the 19th century.

Boxgrove is best known for the Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site discovered in a gravel quarry near the village.

At the end of Zinc Works Road there is a quarry at North Gare at one time owned by Tarmac, used for the extraction of sand and gravel from the beach of North Gare Sands by the lagoon at Teesmouth.

Meyer ’ s estate also had a quarry for gravel in a hilly area off the Penal Rock Road in an area called Morne Diablo or Devil ’ s Mountain.

There is a gravel quarry in the area, as well as the Nova Scotia Firefighters School.

Much of this traffic is destined for either the Pala Indian casino or a new gravel quarry that was recently opened.

Immediately to the east of the downtown village is the Sechelt, or " Shishalh " First Nation Band Lands, containing a shopping centre, movie theatre, and one of the largest open pit gravel quarry extraction operations in North America.

East of Hatton is a large lake, formerly a sand and gravel quarry.

It was created in an abandoned gravel quarry using the natural flooding of springwater after the city caked the bottom with clay.

Enlarged as a gravel quarry, the site also served at various times as a watering hole for cattle, a trash dump, and a squatter's camp.

In addition to the PEPCON and Kerr-McGee facilities, there was also a large marshmallow factory, Kidd & Co., about away, and a gravel quarry in operation nearby.

Even in the eighteenth century, Parish records show that gravel and stone was being removed from Carey ( or quarry ) Hill in the centre of the village.

When an area is constructed specifically as a terrain, the playing surface is typically loose gravel, decomposed granite, brick grog or crushed sea shell.

At the time, the country had about 2. 2 million miles ( 3. 5 million km ) of rural roads, of which a mere 8. 66 percent ( 190, 476 miles or 306, 541 km ) had " improved " surfaces: gravel, stone, sand-clay, brick, shells, oiled earth, etc.

He could also imitate the sounds of the hoofs pounding on different surfaces: " stone, brick, clay, gravel, greensward, or when crossing bridges.

The region's mineral resource base includes brick clay and clay aggregate, gravel and sand-gravel mix, peat, and sapropel.

The of gardens are structured as a series of formally enclosed spaces framed within brick walls and clipped hedges, which open one from another, providing long axial views, in which profuse naturalized plantings of hardy and annual plants contrast with lawns, brick and gravel paths, formal reflecting pools, framed in walls and clipped hedging in box, holly, laurel and yew ( illustration, right ) and punctuated by massive terracotta pots and many narrowly columnar Irish yews, originally grown on the estate from cuttings.

* Manual or powered tampers compact gravel before laying a concrete or brick patio or walkway so that the underlying gravel layer does not settle over time, or compress the fill in a utility trench as seen in the illustration.

Run-ups are made from a number of different materials including brick paving, concrete and gravel.

Yevlakh City is also rich with natural resources like clay mixture sand deposits, as well as clay, sand and gravel deposits needed for brick making.

Yevlakh City is also rich with natural resources like clay mixture sand deposits, as well as clay, sand and gravel deposits needed for brick making.

Situated on and designed between 1848 – 1850 by the architectural theorist Andrew Jackson Downing, a prominent advocate of the Gothic revival style, the gardens consist of gravel and brick pathways with borders of boxwoods, and artificial fish, duck and stone lined reflection ponds.

To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size — a landscape filled with railroad stations ; houses ; bridges ; factories ; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house ; railroad crossings ; shacks ; coal companies ; a three-story brick ' Central Light And Power Company ' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the ' Ynysybwl Coal Company ' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind ; small town streets lined with banks and stores ; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an ' East End Hardware ' store with their slogan ' Nuts To You!

British colonialists embarked on a number of public works of sanitation and transportation — such as gravel paved streets, proper drains, street sweepers, and a network of trams and horse-drawn trolleys.

Large amounts of dirt gravel and marl from the large hill the glass works were situated on were removed for use at a planned new Post office in 1961.

Concrete sculpture at Lenwade inscribed with the words Figure in a landscape 7¾ miles from Reepham with disused railway and gravel pits contemplating the history of industry and their back turned on the old concrete works which once produced beams for motorway bridges but now crushes cars

Today the village is in a scenic location on the River Thames, although home to a large sewage works and gravel extraction plant.

These signs are often temporary in nature and used to indicate road works ( construction ), poor roads, or temporary conditions ahead on the road including: flagmen, survey crew, single-lane, detour, bridge out, utility crew ahead, blasting area, bump, dip, frost heaves, flooding ( or " High water "), soft shoulder, uneven pavement, freshly oiled road, loose gravel, smoke on road, trucks entering, etc.

" Drift " geology is often more important than " solid " geology when considering building works, drainage, siting water boreholes, sand and gravel resources and soil fertility.

It was the original site of Derby ’ s railway manufacturing industry, but land here had also been used for gas and coke works, gravel abstraction and landfill.

Smaller draglines were also commonly used before hydraulic excavators came into common use, the smaller draglines are now rarely used other than on river and gravel pit works.

The vessel sat outside at a town works department gravel pit where it had deteriorated quite badly until it was restored by the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives.

The album contains two fan favorite songs from the Fountains ' live performances: " Red Dragon Tattoo ," about a boy who gets a tattoo to impress a girl, and " Denise ," a faux-grunge power-pop confection where the songwriters show their intentionally bad and comic writing with " She works at Liberty Travel / She's got a heart made of gravel.

The construction industry would be severely hampered by lack of inexpensive sand and gravel, and many civil works projects – including important bridges and reservoirs – would be impossible.

This method works reasonably well for particles in the sand and gravel size range.

The Walhouse inheritance brought large coal mines in Cannock and Walsall, as well as extractive works supplying the construction industry, including sandstone and limestone quarries, brickyards, gravel pits and sand pits.

The gravel extraction works caused some undermining of at least one of the structures.

This money was spent to restore the damage caused by the gravel works, as well as to install a swing bridge which now is the only means of access, reducing the monument's exposure to vandalism.

This works best when the snake is in dry leaves or gravel.

Part of which had been used a local council works department materials dump for sand and gravel etc.