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He also is developing what he says should be more-affordable pothole-resistant pavements, using non-petroleum "bio asphalts" derived from waste materials such as corn stalks and switch grass.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2010

Such is, in fact, the case; and these older asphalts are represented by Grahamite, Albertite, etc., which I have designated as asphaltic coals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various

Fillers.—Fillers are solid asphalts or tars that are used for filling expansion joints in rigid pavements and for filling the spaces between the blocks in brick, wood block and stone block pavements.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)

They may be petroleum residues or native asphalts fluxed with petroleum oils.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)

Oil asphalts are used for dust layers, for binders for macadam roads, for asphalt cements for sheet pavement surfaces, and for fillers for block pavements and expansion joints.

From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)