Overview
- Broadens the reader’s understanding of evaporites and their potentially dangerous role
- Includes case studies that illustrate the problems accompanying dam construction in evaporites
- Provides a valuable source of information for researchers and practitioners alike
Part of the book series: Advances in Karst Science (AKS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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. Toimprove 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dams and Reservoirs in Evaporites
Authors: Petar Milanović, Nikolay Maksimovich, Olga Meshcheriakova
Series Title: Advances in Karst Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18521-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18520-6Published: 10 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18523-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18521-3Published: 25 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2511-2066
Series E-ISSN: 2511-2082
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 157
Topics: Geology, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Hydrology/Water Resources, Sustainable Development, Geomorphology