Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet QUARRYING

Definition av QUARRYING

1. böjningsform av quarry
2. presensparticip av quarry

Exempel på hur man kan använda QUARRYING i en mening

• They construct at least 16 forts, with about 15,000 legionaries digging ditches, quarrying rock and cutting stone, preventing idleness which led to unrest and rebellions in the ranks.
• A barren settlement, Green's Landing changed little in its first 70 or so years; , granite quarrying became a major occupation and little Green's Landing became a boom town.
• The development of East Longmeadow around the turn-of-the century was largely reliant on the brownstone quarrying industry.
• He began applying modern quarrying methods, and in 1889 formed a partnership with Tyrrell Swan Willcox, an immigrant from Rugby, England, who was instrumental in promoting the use of polished Kasota limestone for interior and exterior residential use.
• But, by the 1860s, quarrying of the area's rich Bluestone deposits replaced agriculture as the town's economic mainstay.
• This along with Hercules Cement's nearby quarrying makes these areas prone to sinkholes, (see Karst Topography) and led to the closure of a bridge that carried Bushkill Street, a state road, over the Bushkill Creek.
• Verde Antique marble quarrying and talc mining were historically significant in Roxbury; today, one commercial sand and gravel extraction operation is located in the town.
• Civil War, granite quarrying became a viable business, and the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad was built to transport stone from the quarries to finishing shops in nearby Hardwick, which had a rail connection to the outside world.
• Brisance is of practical importance in explosives engineering for determining the effectiveness of an explosion in blasting and quarrying, and in weaponry such as fragmenting shells, bomb casings, grenades, and plastic explosives.
• It has found wide use in coal mining, quarrying, metal ore mining, and civil construction in applications where its low cost and ease of use may outweigh the benefits of other explosives, such as water resistance, oxygen balance, higher detonation velocity, or performance in small-diameter columns.
• The area around the castle was nationally famous for the quarrying of high-quality millstones ('querns') for use in water mills.
• Iron ore mining has been common in the Harz region since Roman times; the earliest known evidence for quarrying and smelting is from the 3rd century AD.
• Selsverket - Sel municipality has a long tradition in mining and quarrying for minerals, soapstone, and slate.
• Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating such things as fireworks, safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and other fasteners, parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, quarrying, and demolition.
• South Shropshire had many ancient monuments, with Mitchells Fold on the Welsh border being the most notable, and there is evidence of Neolithic quarrying in the Apedale.
• The mining and quarrying industries became major employers, and limestone, lead, jasper and manganese (Mango) were exported.
• The firm of Poynder and Medlicott began quarrying on the Snodland-Halling border in the early 19th century and the company was taken over by William Lee in 1846.
• Deflagration systems and products can also be used in mining, demolition and stone quarrying via gas pressure blasting as a beneficial alternative to high explosives.
• Bulldozers are used heavily in large and small scale construction, road building, minings and quarrying, on farms, in heavy industry factories, and in military applications in both peace and wartime.
• In architecture, the term has considerable overlap with megalith, which is normally used for prehistory, and may be used in the contexts of rock-cut architecture that remains attached to solid rock, as in monolithic church, or for exceptionally large stones such as obelisks, statues, monolithic columns or large architraves, that may have been moved a considerable distance after quarrying.

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