High Dams: the Viewpoint of the Geologist
- Creators
- Ransome, F. L.
Abstract
If rocks were entirely homogeneous it would probably rarely, if ever, be necessary to call upon a geologist to examine a site for a high dam. It could safely be assumed by the engineers that the rock exposed at the site continues unchanged in horizontal and downward directions, and that consequently the appropriate tests for strength, imperviousness, and other properties, applied to samples from the site, would determine whether a dam could safely be constructed at that locality. At first thought, the necessity for considering the effect of earthquakes might be regarded as an exception to the foregoing general statement, but serious earthquakes are a consequence of movement along faults, and faults are obviously departures from homogeneity.
Additional Information
© 1931 American Society of Civil Engineers.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 99625
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20191101-143330163
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2019-11-01Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-11-01Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 95
- Other Numbering System Name
- Balch Graduate School of the Geological Sciences
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 29