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Masonry dams are dams made out of
masonry Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar (masonry), mortar. The term ''masonry'' can also refer to the buildin ...
mainly stone and
brick A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a unit primarily composed of clay. But is now also used informally to denote building un ...
, sometimes joined with mortar. They are either the
gravity In physics, gravity (), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction between all massive particles. On Earth, gravity takes a slightly different meaning: the observed force b ...
or the arch-gravity type. The largest masonry dam in the World is Nagarjuna Sagar Dam,
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and
Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...
, in India.


Visual examples

Image:Roosevelt Dam original masonry.jpg, The original Theodore Roosevelt Dam in
Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
Image:New Croton Dam from below.jpg, New Croton Dam in New York Image:Artouste-dam1.JPG, The Artouste Dam in
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Image:NagarjunaSagarDam.JPG, The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in
India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
is the largest masonry dam in the world


See also

* Arch-gravity dam *
Causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet T ...
* Dam * Gravity dam *
Retaining wall Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides. Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to a slope that it would not naturally keep to ...
* Wicket dam


References

{{Reflist 01 Dams by type Masonry buildings and structures Brick buildings and structures Stone buildings