Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". [1]
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [1] is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [3] [4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
Freston is a causewayed enclosure, [5] a form of earthwork that was built in northwestern Europe in the early Neolithic period. [6] [7] Causewayed enclosures are areas that are fully or partially enclosed by ditches interrupted by gaps, or causeways, of unexcavated ground, often with earthworks and palisades in some combination. [8]
Sketch of Whitehawk camp, a causewayed enclosure. A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe.It is an enclosure marked out by ditches and banks, with a number of causeways crossing the ditches.
A low-water crossing (also known as an Irish bridge or Irish Crossing, causeway in Australia, low-level crossing or low-water bridge) is a low-elevation roadway traversing over a waterbody that stays dry above the water when the flow is low, but is designed to get submerged under high-flow conditions such as floods.
A topographic map series uses a common specification that includes the range of cartographic symbols employed, as well as a standard geodetic framework that defines the map projection, coordinate system, ellipsoid and geodetic datum. Official topographic maps also adopt a national grid referencing system.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
The southern end of the causeway at Metairie, Louisiana, in 1998. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38 ...