Hoover Dam
Concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in Black Canyon, on the Nevada–Arizona border, USA.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? | Wesley Crump | subject | The most famous arch dam, which is really a gravity-arch hybrid. |
Why Are There No Short Arch Dams? — Wesley Crump (2025)
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Even what is perhaps the most famous arch dam in the world - Hoover Dam - isn’t a pure arch structure.
- Role: subject
- In the article: Cited as the best-known arch dam, which is in fact a gravity-arch dam that balances mass and arch action to suit a relatively wide canyon.
- Why it matters: Illustrates hybrid design; a one-paragraph example.