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Deep Crevice Flow

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Deep Crevice Flow
Description Deep crevice on east end - location of frozen arch dam was across spill of dark-colored flow near upper left corner. This flow of mud continually overwhelmed excavation efforts in a deep fissure on the bed of the Columbia River. Project engineers constructed a series of interconnected refrigeration pipes to freeze the mud to create the "Ice Dam" or the frozen arch dam.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Photographer Unknown
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Excavation--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Landslides--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Ice Dam; Excavation United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type photographs
Identifier 40b6v5p250.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1579
Date 1937 2008
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. V, Page 250)-Cage 40, Box 6 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Language English

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