excavation

technology
Also known as: underground construction, underground excavation

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  • railroad tunnel
    In tunnels and underground excavations

    excavations, horizontal underground passageway produced by excavation or occasionally by nature’s action in dissolving a soluble rock, such as limestone. A vertical opening is usually called a shaft. Tunnels have many uses: for mining ores, for transportation—including road vehicles, trains,

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