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
The original Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Arizona
The Artouste Dam in France
The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in India is the largest masonry dam in the world
See also
References
- ↑ "Masonry Dam". EcologyDictionary.org. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ "Nagarjuna Sagar Dam". Guntur District National Informatics Centre. Government of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
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