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Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock; Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in: The Thames Embankment along the north side of the Thames River in London, England The Victoria Embankment contained within the Thames Embankments
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
Open-cut station of the New York City Subway. Cuts can be created by multiple passes of a shovel, grader, scraper or excavator, or by blasting. [3] One unusual means of creating a cut is to remove the roof of a tunnel through daylighting.
The side of a levee in Sacramento, California. A levee (/ ˈ l ɛ v i / or / ˈ l ɛ v eɪ /), [a] [1] dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated ridge, natural or artificial, alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river.
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The Thames Embankment is a work of 19th-century civil engineering that reclaimed marshy [citation needed] land next to the River Thames in central London. It consists of the Victoria Embankment and Chelsea Embankment .
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A natural grass bank of the Perfume River in Huế, Vietnam An artificial lake in Keukenhof with grass banks. In geography, a bank is the land alongside a body of water. ...