Corduroy road

A Corduroy road or log road is a type of road made by placing sand-covered logs perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. Sand is a naturally occurring Granular material composed of finely divided rock and Mineral particles In Geometry, two lines or planes (or a line and a plane are considered perpendicular (or orthogonal) to each other if they form congruent A swamp is a Wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet is a bumpy ride in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to loose logs that can roll and shift. The horse ( Equus caballus) is a hoofed ( Ungulate) Mammal, one of eight living species of the family Equidae. This type of road was already constructed in Roman times. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC It is known to have been used as early as 4,000 BC with examples found in Glastonbury, England^[1] . Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a Dry point on the Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. Compare the puncheon or plank road, which uses hewn boards instead of logs, resulting in a smoother and safer surface. A plank road or puncheon is a dirt path or road covered with a series of planks similar to the wooden sidewalks one would see in a Western movie

Corduroy roads can also be built as a foundation for other surfacing. If the logs are buried in wet, acidic, anaerobic soils such as peat or muskeg they decay very slowly. In Computer science, ACID ( Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability) is a set of properties that guarantee that Database transactions are For other uses of the term "hypoxia" see Hypoxia. Hypoxia or oxygen depletion is a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments Peat is an accumulation of partially Decayed Vegetation matter. Muskeg is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and Boreal areas although it is found in other northern climates as well A few corduroy road foundations that date back to the early 20th century still exist in the United States. One example is the Alaska Highway between Burwash Landing and Koidern, Yukon, which was rebuilt in 1943, less than a year after the original route was graded on thin soil and vegetation over permafrost, by using corduroy, then building gravel road over top. The Alaska Highway (also known as the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, or ALCAN Highway) was constructed during World War II and connects Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about frozen ground For other meanings see Permafrost (disambiguation. During the 1980s, the gravel was itself covered with a chip-seal. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. During the late 1990s, this corduroy-underlain road began to be replaced with modern road construction, including rerouting of the entire highway. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999

Tracked Excavator placing corduroy on Muskeg near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta

Caterpillar D300E hauling on a Corduroy road built over Muskeg

In a slang application, "Corduroy Road" can also apply to a road in ill repair, having many holes, discernible ruts, or surface swellings and one on which travel is unpleasant, or capable of harming the vehicles travelling on it. Rocky Mountain House is a Town in west- Central Alberta, Canada, at the confluence of the Clearwater Alberta (ælˈbɝtə is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1 1905 Caterpillars are the Larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera (the Insect order comprising butterflies and Moths Slang is the use of highly informal Words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's Dialect or Language. Vehicles, derived from the Latin word vehiculum, are non-living Means of transport.

Corduroy roads were used extensively in the American Civil War in Sherman's March through the Carolinas and in World War II by both German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South In the Pacific Northwest corduroy roads built of huge logs and without the sand covering were the mainstay of local logging practices and were known as skid roads. A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a Logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding" in which the logs Two of these, respectively on the outskirts of the milltowns of Seattle and Vancouver, which had become concentrations of bars and working man's slum, were the origin of the more widespread meaning of "skid road" and its derivative skid row, referring to a poor area or one given over to sleazy strip-club. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal A skid row or skid road is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large population of impoverished abusers of Alcohol and often other Drugs

References

1. ^ Lay, Maxwell G (1992). Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them. Rutgers University Press, Page 43. 0813526914.