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Geology and engineering for dams and reservoirs. Papers and discussions presented at the New York meeting, February, 1929.

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American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers

Material type: Text

TextSeries: American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers. Technical publication Class I, Mining geology ; no. 215.Publication details: New York, American institute of mining and metallurgical engineers, inc., c1929.Description: 112 p. incl. illus., map, tables, diagrs. 23 cmSubject(s):

LOC classification:

TN1 .A525 no. 215

Contents:

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.

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