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    (500 mi) in length before the failure of its dam. Glacial activity can also form natural dams, such as the damming of the Clark Fork in Montana by the Cordilleran...
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    upper level trough, with the damming preceding the arrival of the more equatorward portion. Some of the cold air damming events which occur east of the...
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    is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against...
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  • A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption...
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    upstream of the dams, sometimes destroying biologically rich and productive lowland and riverine valley forests, marshland and grasslands. Damming interrupts...
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    Rock wall damming the northwest side of Sylvan Lake Path between rocks and lake Paddleboat on the lake View down from Sylvan Lake Water Dam to the Sunday...
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  • History at the University of Guelph. The book charts the impacts of the damming of the Winnipeg River in the Lake of the Woods region on the local Anishinaabe...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Dam Busters may refer to: Operation Chastise, an attack by the RAF on German dams in World War II No. 617 Squadron RAF...
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    Lake Pedder (redirect from Lake Pedder Dam)
    natural catchment from the Frankland Range, the lake is formed by the 1972 damming of the Serpentine and Huon rivers by the Hydro Electric Commission of Tasmania...
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    The Three Gorges Dam (simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze...
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    Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
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  • - The Professional Squash Association". psaworldtour.com. Rowan Damming at Squash Info https://www.psaworldtour.com/player/rowan-damming/ v t e v t e...
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  • river, it can block the river causing a damming effect. Damming could also occur due to rock-slides. Such dams are unstable and can cause flooding if not...
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    Kerala, and 42 dams and reservoirs. The dams and reservoirs in Kerala include Solaiyar Dam, Kakkayam Dam, Idamalayar Dam, Peringalkuthu Dam and Kakki Reservoir...
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    A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water...
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  • man-made dams by volume of fill/structure. By general definition, a dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams, hence tailings dams are relegated...
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  • list of the tallest dams in the world over 135 m (443 ft) in height. The tallest dam in the world is the Jinping-I Dam, an arch dam in China at 305 m (1...
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  • Daming may refer to: Daming County (大名县), in Hebei, China Daming Lake (大明湖), in Jinan, Shandong, China Daming Palace, an imperial palace complex of the...
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  • The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by...
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    (formed by the damming of Eightmile River). Norwich Pond (formed by the damming of Falls Brook). Rogers Lake (partly in Lyme; formed by the damming of Mill Brook)...
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