Influence of weak pyritiferous shale on the design of Dudhganga dam, India
Abstract
The Dudhganga project, presently under construction in Kolhapur dstrict, Maharashtra, consists of a 75 m high and 445 m long masonry dam in the gorge with earthen flanks across Dudhganga river in the Krishna valley. This will create a reservoir of capacity 9.72 × 10 6 m 3 to be utilised for irrigation of 53,520 ha of land on either banks. The dam site is located, in the Deccan basalt province of indian peninsula, near Asangaon on the eastern elope of the continental divide in a terrain representing dissected upi/and with steep sided young valleys showing structural rock benches.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
Aging
Elder Care
and Social Issues
Health
Medicine and Society
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Weak rock: Soft, fractured & weathered rock, volume 3
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Pages
- 1471–1476
- Publication date
- 22 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter