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Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites

Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites

Milanovic, Petar
Maksimovich, Nikolay
Meshcheriakova, Olga

Paperback

Series: Advances in Karst Science

Environmental StudiesGeology

ISBN10: 3030185230
ISBN13: 9783030185237
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 157
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.25 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

This book shares essential insights on evaporites and their effects on dams and reservoirs. The intensity of the solution and suffusion process in evaporites (gypsum and salt) is much greater than the solution of carbonates, and evaporites are particularly vulnerable at dam and reservoir sites.

Moreover, the presence of evaporites in the vicinity of dams or reservoirs often leads to serious problems: numerous dams in countries around the world (e.g. China, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Peru, Russia, Spain, the Unites States, and Venezuela) have been affected by evaporite dissolution problems. Several of these dams were seriously endangered or ultimately abandoned, even though the best available engineering prevention and remediation practices were applied. Conventional geotechnical methods based on treating the underground (e.g. grout curtains) or surface (e.g. protective blankets) were not successful.

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