Category
page 1Geologic maps
geological map
special-purpose map made to show geological features
The so-called “Goldmine Papyrus” with a map of the Wadi Hammamat on the recto and several texts (letters, administrative, and literary) on the verso
papyurs of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (Egyptian New Kingdom), 1156–1150 BCE, in the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy (Cat.1879/+ Cat.1969 + Cat.1899)
James Hector
Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907)
swath width
thumb|A mower with a scythe cuts a swathe through the crop.
thumb|A mechanical swather.
A swathe ( British English, rhymes with "bathe"; or swath American English, rhymes with "cloth") is the strip of cut crop made by a scythe or a mowing-machine. A mower with a scythe cuts a swathe along the mowing-edge leaving the uncut grass to the right and the cut grass laid in a windrow to the left on the previously mown land. The swathe width depends on the blade length, the nature of the crop, and the mower, but for grass is usually about wide. When mowing in a team the mowers start at the edge of a me