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  2. Macadam - Wikipedia

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    Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly. A binding layer of stone dust (crushed stone from the original material) may form; it may also, after rolling, be covered with a cement or bituminous binder to ...

  3. Crushed stone - Wikipedia

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    Crushed stone. 20 mm (0.79 in) crushed stone, used for construction aggregate and landscape applications. Crushed stone or angular rock is a form of construction aggregate, typically produced by mining a suitable rock deposit and breaking the removed rock down to the desired size using crushers. It is distinct from naturally occurring gravel ...

  4. Construction aggregate - Wikipedia

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    Construction aggregate. Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates are the most mined materials in the world.

  5. Gravel - Wikipedia

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    Gravel (largest fragment in this photo is about 40 mm (1.6 in)) Gravel (/ ˈɡrævəl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone.

  6. Caliche - Wikipedia

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    Caliche (/ kəˈliːtʃiː /) (unrelated to the street-slang "Caliche" spoken in El Salvador) is a soil accumulation of soluble calcium carbonate at depth, where it precipitates and binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt. It occurs worldwide, in aridisol and mollisol soil orders—generally in arid or semiarid regions ...

  7. Quarter minus - Wikipedia

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    Quarter minus. Quarter minus is a type of construction aggregate that is usually made from crushed basalt (but can be made of other rock types) from which the crushed rock product is not any bigger than 1/4" in diameter. The quarter minus rock size can consist of rock in diameter as big as 1/4" in size and "fines" (anything smaller than the ...

  8. Regolith - Wikipedia

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    Regolith. Surface of asteroid 433 Eros. Regolith (/ ˈrɛɡəlɪθ /) [1][2] is a blanket of unconsolidated, loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock. It includes dust, broken rocks, and other related materials and is present on Earth, the Moon, Mars, some asteroids, and other terrestrial planets and moons.

  9. Dimension stone - Wikipedia

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    Dimension stone. Large blocks of granite dimension stone being loaded at Teignmouth in Devon, southern England, in 1827. Dimension stone is natural stone or rock that has been selected and finished (e.g., trimmed, cut, drilled or ground) to specific sizes or shapes. Color, texture and pattern, and surface finish of the stone are also normal ...

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