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Masonry dam
Type of dam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
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