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- verb Present participle of
quarry . - noun A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry
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Examples
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Ancient Egyptian quarrying is seen under its most striking aspect among extensive limestone or sandstone ranges, as at Turra and Silsilis; but the process by which the stone was extracted can nowhere be more distinctly traced than at Assûan.
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Large-scale mineral exploitation such as quarrying leaves distinctive scars that, in the case of Earth, would eventually become obscured by overlying strata but would still show up in geological surveys.
Is Anybody Out There? Paul Davies 2010
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Large-scale mineral exploitation such as quarrying leaves distinctive scars that, in the case of Earth, would eventually become obscured by overlying strata but would still show up in geological surveys.
Is Anybody Out There? Paul Davies 2010
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Large-scale mineral exploitation such as quarrying leaves distinctive scars that, in the case of Earth, would eventually become obscured by overlying strata but would still show up in geological surveys.
Is Anybody Out There? Paul Davies 2010
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The government may instead opt for a more tailored solution where some vulnerable types of mining are excluded, such as quarrying and salt mining, and others are given temporary exclusion and/or substantial new tax breaks.
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The government may instead opt for a more tailored solution where some vulnerable types of mining are excluded, such as quarrying and salt mining, and others are given temporary exclusion and/or substantial new tax breaks.
IOL: News 2010
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The government may instead opt for a more tailored solution where some vulnerable types of mining are excluded, such as quarrying and salt mining, and others are given temporary exclusion and/or substantial new tax breaks.
IOL: News 2010
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NSK has introduced a range of sealed-clean spherical roller bearings (SRB) for use in industries such as quarrying and construction, and paper and steel making.
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The death rate is higher than the average rate for other dangerous jobs such as quarrying, logging and coal mining.
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The problem now, from the herders’ perspective, principally concerns land withdrawals for petroleum exploration, infrastructure development, and related degradation processes such as quarrying for sand and gravel, blowing sand and dust, and off-road vehicle traffic in summer [25].
Climate change impacts on the Yamal Nenets of northwest Siberia 2009
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