clay pits
Potter's material sources
Clay pits are excavations where clay is extracted for making bricks, pottery, or ceramics.
These industrial sites often become water-filled depressions after operations cease, sometimes converted to lakes or nature reserves: The old clay pits have become a popular swimming spot.
In some regions, clay pits carry associations with working-class history and industrial heritage.
- diggingRemoving earth below
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- mudWet soil mixture
- excavationAct of unearthing
- soilGround matter for planting
earth · kaolin · raw material · brickmaking · mines · sediment · worked out · terracotta · wheelbarrow · silt · stratigraphy · ceramic · firing · ochre · kiln · loam · wetland · pottery
- brick factorykilns, kiln, red brick, fire brick, molds
- ceramicspottery, porcelain, cup, bowl, plate
- natural resourcescrude oil, lumber, water, gas, air
- prehistoric lifedinosaur, dinosaurs, triceratops, Velociraptor, velociraptor
- land usezoning ordinances, suburban sprawl, land management, arable land, industrial
clay pitsstone quarries
Sites where rock is extracted
granite quarries · marble quarries · gravel pits · sand pits · coal mines
clay pitslandfills
Engineered waste disposal sites
embankments · slag heaps · levees · construction sites · earthworks