Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Geology and engineering for dams and reservoirs. Papers and discussions presented at the New York meeting, February, 1929. - New York, American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers, inc., c1929. - 112 p. incl. illus., map, tables, diagrs. 23 cm. - American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers. Technical publication Class I, Mining geology, no. 215. no. 26 .

Bibliographical foot-notes.

Responsibilities of the geologist in engineering projects, by Charles P. Berkey.--Problems involved in the geologic examination of sites for dams, by Kirk Bryan.--Relation of ground-water conditions to leakage of reservoirs, by Oscar Edward Meinzer.--Effect of minor geologic details on the safety of dams, by Charles Terzaghi.--More and better geologic data for use in hydraulic projects, by Gerald H. Matthes.--Geologic examination of dam sites in the Tennessee and Cumberland River basins, by L. W. Fisher and R. D. Ohrenschall.--The geology of dam sites, by Chester K. Wentworth.--The geology of dams and reservoirs, by L. C. Glenn.--Success and failure of reservoirs in basalt, by Harold T. Stearns.

LCCN: po 29000252

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dams.
Reservoirs.

LC Class. No.: TN1 / .A525 no. 215