Masonry dams are dams made out of masonry – mainly stone and brick, sometimes joined with mortar.[1] They are either the gravity or the arch-gravity type. The largest masonry dam in the World is Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, in India.[2]
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