Abstract
Pits and trenches, or to use the old Cornish mining term, costeans, can be a quick, cheap way of obtaining lithological and structural information in areas of shallow cover.
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Marjoribanks, R.W. (1997). Pitting, Trenching and Stripping. In: Geological Methods in Mineral Exploration and Mining. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5822-0_5
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