Tehri Dam: An Engineering Marvel

The engineering geology of the Soltan Dam, Mateur (Tunisia)

The Soltan Dam on the river Soltan, a branch of Tine River, is located about 19 km of Mateur city in the northeast of Tunisia. The dam is now under Study and will be constructed in 2017. The Soltan Dam has been designed as an earth fill dam with homogeneous materials. The dam and its associated concrete structures are mainly founded on marl, shale and shale of Lower Miocene age, sandstone of th...

Championing medicine's marvel

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations in January, mostly due to rumours that the vaccine was an American plot to sterilize Muslim children, in spite of the region being one of only three where the real threat of polio infection remains, as a result of the extraordinary success of vaccination programs worldwide. The c...

Managed Multi-strata Tree + Crop Systems: An Agroecological Marvel

Today, when the emphasis on single-species production systems that is cardinal to agricultural and forestry programs the world over has resulted in serious ecosystem imbalances, the virtues of the time-tested practice of growing different species together as in managed Multi-strata Tree + Crop (MTC) systems deserve serious attention. The coconut-palm-based multispecies systems in tropical homeg...

Engineering Geology Considerations for Specifying Dam Foundation Objectives

In dam construction, the actual depth to adequate foundation materials at a site is known with certainty only at the points of exploration. The foundation objective serves as a descriptive tool to convey design intent information to construction engineering staff and the contractor. The selection of the most effective approach, or approaches, usually depends on site geology and the amount of av...

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