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2. Grading (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   Section through railway track and foundation showing the sub-grade. Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, [1] for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage.

3. Landscaping - Wikipedia

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   Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following: Living elements , such as flora or fauna ; or what is commonly called gardening , the art and craft of growing plants with a goal of creating a beauty within the landscape .

4. Grade (slope) - Wikipedia

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   l = slope length α = angle of inclination. The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal. It is a special case of the slope, where zero indicates horizontality. A larger number ...

5. Terrace (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   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 steps, for the purposes of more effective farming. This type of landscaping is therefore called terracing. Graduated terrace steps are commonly used to farm on hilly or mountainous terrain.

6. Swale (landform) - Wikipedia

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   This archetypal form of swale is a dug-out, sloped, often grassed or reeded "ditch" or "lull" in the landform. One option involves piling the soil onto a new bank on the still lower slope, in which case a bund or berm is formed, mitigating the natural (and often hardscape-increased ) risks to slopes below and to any linked watercourse from ...

7. Glossary of landforms - Wikipedia

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   Homoclinal ridge – Ridge with a moderate sloping backslope and steeper frontslope; Inselberg, also known as Monadnock – Isolated, steep rock hill on relatively flat terrain; Inverted relief – Landscape features that have reversed their elevation relative to other features; Lavaka – Type of gully, formed via groundwater sapping