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Embankment vs Rockfill - What's the difference?

embankment | rockfill |

As nouns the difference between embankment and rockfill

is that embankment is a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road while rockfill is a dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.

embankment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

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    * Victoria Embankment

    rockfill

    English

    Noun

  • A dam's embankment of compacted free-draining granular earth, often containing rocks, with an impervious zone.