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  2. Pont d'Aël - Wikipedia

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    The 1.20-metre-wide (3.9 ft) line was cut as a half-gallery in the rocky slope, so that a parapet, up to 3 m high, was formed that ended in the bedrock on the valley side. The advantage of this method was that unlike a normal tunneling process, the tunneling work could start at any number of points because it was easily visible.

  3. Agricultural fencing - Wikipedia

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    In areas where such a tall fence is unsuitable (for example, on mountains subject to very high winds), deer may be excluded (or contained) by a fence of ordinary height (about 1.5 metres [4 feet 11 inches]), with a smaller one of about 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) high, about 1 metre (3 feet 3 inches) away from it, on the same side as the deer.

  4. Coos Bay - Wikipedia

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    East of the bay, and in the Coos River watershed, the bedrock is the oldest, formed during the Eocene. [10] The center of Coos Bay, where the towns of North Bend and Coos Bay sit, was formed during the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene . [ 9 ]

  5. Deep foundation - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Horns Rev wind farm in the North Sea west of Denmark utilizes 80 large monopiles of 4 metres diameter sunk 25 meters deep into the seabed, [4] while the Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm off the coast of England went online in 2008 with over 100 turbines, each mounted on a 4.7-metre-diameter monopile foundation in ocean depths ...

  6. Western Norway - Wikipedia

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    Farms in other areas of Western Norway are often small. The total area of agricultural in Western Norway is 2 650 square kilometers, which is 5.3% of the total area in the region. Western Norway is highly mountainous; in less than 10 kilometers from the Sognefjord , there are peaks that are over 2000 meters in height.

  7. Tigray Region - Wikipedia

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    Handtke's map is 39 cm wide and 66 cm tall, and is printed on paper that has been bonded to fabric. The scale is approximately 1:5,600,000; relief is shown by short lines representing slope aspect and a general sense of steepness (hachures).The work was created in one of the few stronger cartographic publishing houses in 19thcentury Germany ...

  8. Vermont - Wikipedia

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    The average dairy farm produced 1.3 million pounds of milk annually in 2008. [168] The dairy barn remains characteristic of Vermont, but the 95% decrease in dairy farms between 1947 and 2021 means that preservation of dairy barns has increasingly become a matter of preserving historic legacy rather than meeting a basic need of an agricultural ...

  9. Golan Heights - Wikipedia

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    A plant nursery was established and work began on farm buildings in Jillin. [89] A village called Tiferet Binyamin was established on lands purchased from Saham al-Jawlan by the Shavei Zion Association based in New York, [88] but the project was abandoned after a year when the Turks issued an edict in 1896 evicting the 17 non-Turkish families ...