Masonry dam
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Template:Short description Masonry dams are dams made out of masonry – mainly stone and brick, sometimes joined with mortar.[1] They are either the gravity or the arch-gravity type. The largest masonry dam in the World is Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, in India.[2]
Visual examples
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The original Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Arizona
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The Artouste Dam in France
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The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in India is the largest masonry dam in the world
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Masonry Dam". EcologyDictionary.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nagarjuna Sagar Dam". Guntur District National Informatics Centre. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
