I am an engineering geologist. I am involved in a case where a landowner filled in a stream with a road, several bridges, and an island. The local regulatory agency would like to estimate the volume of fill placed in the stream. That's my job. I have been able to calculate most of the volume by slicing the fill into cross sections and calculating the area of cross section and then multiplying the area for whatever length I decide to evaluate. My problem is where some cross sections are attached at a pivot point and I have a angular "length" to evaluate. For example how would you calculate the volume where two trapezoid cross sections of different areas that have a common pivot point and are separated by 50 degrees? Or more easily, what is the volume of a trapezoid that sweeps across an angle of 50 degrees?