the impact are of a linear project is usually referred to as a usually a
corridor
 
 
Sigrid Arnott
Historical Archaeologist
Minnesota Historical Society
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>From:  geoff carver[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday, July 15, 1998 12:29 PM
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>Subject:       terminology
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>looking for a word, really - trying to translate the german word "Eingriff"
>which is "intervention" or even "operation" in english, but doesn't really
>fit
>the contexts:
>        talking about some sort of a linear construction work/project/
>disturbance - maybe some sort of a collective noun to cover pipelines,
>highways,
>
>railroads... or even any sort of a construction at all, really, just that in
>this case we're talking about something which is clearly linear; "linear
>intervention" would be the literal translation, but... obviously doesn't just
>mean construction type stuff, but also military (linear?) intervention, etc.
>-
>someone suggested "trenching", but then again it's not necessarily digging -
>        if you're doing a mitigation study or impact assesment or whatever,
>on
>something which is clearly linear, what do you call that?
>        been too long in foreign parts...
>
>geoff carver
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