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Masonry dam

Type of dam

Masonry dams are dams made out of masonrymainly stone and brick, sometimes joined with mortar. 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.

Visual examples

Image:Roosevelt Dam original masonry.jpg|The original Theodore Roosevelt Dam in Arizona Image:New Croton Dam from below.jpg|New Croton Dam in New York Image:Artouste-dam1.JPG|The Artouste Dam in France Image:NagarjunaSagarDam.JPG|The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in India is the largest masonry dam in the world

References

"Masonry Dam".
"Nagarjuna Sagar Dam". Government of Andhra Pradesh.

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