Pavement may refer to: *

Pavement (architecture) Pavement, in construction, is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and sett (paving), setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and som ...

, an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering *

Road surface A road surface (British English), or pavement (American English), is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. In the past, gravel road surfaces, hoggin, cobbles ...

, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways **

Asphalt concrete Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam, or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parkin ...

, a common form of road surface *

Sidewalk A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, street, highway, terminals. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick ...

or pavement, a walkway along the side of a road *

Cool pavement Cool pavement is a road surface that uses additives to reflect solar radiation unlike conventional dark pavement. Conventional dark pavements contribute to urban heat islands as they absorb 80–95% of sunlight and warm the local air. Cool pavemen ...

, is pavement that delivers higher solar reflectance than conventional dark pavement. *

Pavement (York) Pavement is a street in the city centre of York, in England. History The area occupied by Pavement was outside the Roman city walls, but fairly central within the Mediaeval walls of York. During the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras, it was at the ...

, a street in York, in England

Geology

Limestone pavement A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed dis ...

, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement *

Desert pavement A desert pavement, also called reg (in the western Sahara), serir (eastern Sahara), gibber (in Australia), or saï (central Asia) is a desert surface covered with closely packed, interlocking angular or rounded rock fragments of pebble and cob ...

, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size *

Tessellated pavement In geology and geomorphology, a tessellated pavement is a relatively flat rock surface that is subdivided into more or less regular rectangles, blocks approaching rectangles, or irregular or regular polygons by fractures, frequently systematic jo ...

, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores *

Glacial striation Glacial striations or striae are scratches or gouges cut into bedrock by glacial abrasion. These scratches and gouges were first recognized as the result of a moving glacier in the late 18th century when Swiss alpinists first associated them w ...

or glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action

Arts and entertainment

Pavement (band) Pavement is an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California, in 1989. For most of their career, the group consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals and guitar), Scott Kannberg (guitar and vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (drums ...

, an indie rock band from Stockton, California, US * ''Pavement'' (magazine), a youth culture magazine * "Pavement" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), a television episode

Geology

Arts and entertainment

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