asphalt
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Images shared by the local transportation authority showed chunks of asphalt, reminiscent of earthquake damage, washed over by large waves.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Knife River produces construction materials including the crushed stone, sand and gravel used to make asphalt and concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The collapse was said to swallow up much of the home's driveway, and left broken asphalt, concrete and construction debris inside the hole.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
It fed off itself, from one body to another, like heat shimmering off asphalt in the summer, undefined and blurry.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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He also is developing what he says should be more-affordable pothole-resistant pavements, using non-petroleum "bio asphalts" derived from waste materials such as corn stalks and switch grass.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2010
Fillers.—Fillers are solid asphalts or tars that are used for filling expansion joints in rigid pavements and for filling the spaces between the blocks in brick, wood block and stone block pavements.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
Such is, in fact, the case; and these older asphalts are represented by Grahamite, Albertite, etc., which I have designated as asphaltic coals.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
Quite a rise in the world for a little girl who had once lived in a shabby apartment in New York and run barefooted on the wet asphalts, summer nights!
From The Place of Honeymoons by Arthur Ignatius Keller
Oil asphalts are used for dust layers, for binders for macadam roads, for asphalt cements for sheet pavement surfaces, and for fillers for block pavements and expansion joints.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
"For some reason," a deputy writes, "Brunner believes the asphalted driveway … is now his property."
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022
The next day, traffic flowed over the newly asphalted road, and life in the capital had returned to near normal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
The asphalted road over the pass, called CG-2, connects El Pas de la Casa with the rest of the country.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021
Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019
A yard with a dozen or more tracks is roughly asphalted, and the traveller laden with hand-bags skips merrily across the metals in search of his own particular train.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The BR-163 connects the agricultural powerhouse state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon ports Miritituba and Santarém, and in November the army finished asphalting its last unpaved section.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2020
At the Arena Amazonia, where England will play their opening game against Italy on Saturday, workers are still asphalting the ground outside the stadium, fitting doors and fixing power cables in the changing room.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
"We are happy and thankful to the foreigners for asphalting the 100km Ghorband-Kabul road," says Haji Ahmad, a truck driver from Shinwari.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2012
I had also warned him to look out for, and he succeeded in finding, beds of bitumen permeated with petroleum: this material will prove valuable for fuel and for asphalting, if not for sale.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Even during the war, Eritrea developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and bridges.
From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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