road cut

road cut
   A common anthropogenic feature, typically a microfeature, consisting of the sloping, cut surface flanking a road bed on one or both sides, that remains after local topography is minimized by cutting an elongated depression through higher ground during road construction; a type of cutbank.
   Compare: cut, cutbank.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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