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A bridge on the Lancaster Canal, featuring coping stones linked by large metal "staples".

Coping (from cope, Latin capa) is the capping or covering of a wall.

A splayed or wedge coping is one that slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.

Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils.

It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east, tropical savannas in the north, and mountain ranges in the south-east.

Pavement, in construction, is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering.

Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and sometimes wood.

In landscape architecture, pavements are part of the hardscape and are used on sidewalks, road surfaces, patios, courtyards, etc.

Cobblestones on a road surface in Imola, Italy.

Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.

Modern Bathroom Tiles.

Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass.

They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or other objects such as tabletops.

Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from lightweight materials such as perlite, wood, and mineral wool, typically used for wall and ceiling applications.

In another sense, a tile is a construction tile or similar object, such as rectangular counters used in playing games (see tile-based game).

The word is derived from the French word tuile, which is, in turn, from the Latin word tegula, meaning a roof tile composed of fired clay.