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The typical shape of a ghara. Ghara is an earthen pot made in the Indian subcontinent.It is used for storing drinking water and keeping it cool. [1] [2]The word ghara has cognates in Pahari, Bengali [3] and Odia languages that can all be traced to the Sanskrit word ghaṭa meaning pot. [4]
An earthen floor, also called an adobe floor, is a floor made of dirt, raw earth, or other unworked ground materials. It is usually constructed, in modern times, with a mixture of sand , finely chopped straw and clay , mixed to a thickened consistency and spread with a trowel on a sub-surface such as concrete .
Old adobe minaret in Kharanagh village, Iran Earthen hut with thatched roof in Toteil, near Kassala, Sudan. An earth structure is a building or other structure made largely from soil. Since soil is a widely available material, it has been used in construction since prehistory. It may be combined with other materials, compressed and/or baked to ...
A matki or matka (Hindi and Urdu: maṭkī, maṭkā) in South Asia is an earthen pot used as a home "water storage cooler". It has been in use since ancient times and can be found in houses of every social class.
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For example, in highway construction, a berm is a noise barrier constructed of earth, often landscaped, running along a highway to protect adjacent land users from noise pollution. The shoulder of a road is also called a berm and in New Zealand the word describes a publicly owned grassed nature strip sometimes planted with trees alongside urban ...
Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...
A gas main being laid in a trench. A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a swale or a bar ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).