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Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites

✍ Scribed by Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
170
Series
Advances in Karst Science
Edition
1st ed.
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

This book presents and analyzes revealing case studies in this regard. To improve geotechnical remediation in connection with preventing seepage from reservoirs situated in evaporites, particularly in gypsum, it puts forward a new chemical solution that, after painstaking laboratory testing, was successfully applied in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Distribution of Evaporite Karst in the World (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 1-8
Properties of Evaporites (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 9-20
Karstification of Evaporites (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 21-33
Characterization of Surface and Underground Karst Features (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 35-51
Geohazards Associated with Dams and Reservoirs (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 53-63
Prevention and Remediation at Dam Sites and Reservoirs (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 65-92
Methods of Investigation (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 93-108
Monitoring (Petar Milanović, Nikolai G. Maximovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 109-114
Overview of Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites (Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova)....Pages 115-157

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences; Geology; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics; Hydrology/Water Resources; Sustainable Development; Geomorphology

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