Title Statements
- Full title :Moray : Inca Engineering Mystery.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American Society of Civil Engineers
- Place of Publication:Reston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
Notes
""Side Trip: The Water Works""
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (226 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0784410798, 9780784410790, 9780784476611, 0784476616
- oclc:ocn956633201
- LC Classification:F3429.1.M66.W75 2011eb
- Dewey Decimal:624.098537
Table of Contents
Cover -- Contents -- Maps -- In Memoriam: Alfredo Valencia Zegarra -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Discovering Moray -- The First Glimpse of Moray -- Geographic Setting -- Engineering Features -- Geology -- Climate -- Vegetation and Soils -- Who Build Moray? -- Chapter 2 Civil Engineering Planning -- Planning -- Design Challenges -- Calendrics and Religious Stones -- Water Control Planning -- Chapter 3 Inca Technology -- Design Standards -- Measuring System -- Mathematics -- Use of Models -- Circular Reasoning
Chapter 4 HydrologyA Product of Water and Geology -- Paleohydrologic Evidence -- Hydrogeologic Drainage Basin and Yield -- Lag Time -- Spring Locations -- Temperature and Precipitation -- Spring Flow Measurements -- Water Quality -- Constituents Tested -- Water Quality Analysis -- Paleohydrology -- Chapter 5 Hydraulic Engineering -- Canal Design -- Reservoirs -- Drop Structures -- Water Handling -- Muyu Subsurface Drainage -- The Aqueduct? -- Inca Canal System -- Hydraulic Field Evidence -- Drawing Conclusions
Chapter 6 Construction EngineeringSite Preparation -- Quechuyoc Muyu (A) -- Landslide and Drainage Conduit -- Terrace 8 Building -- Simamuyu (B) -- Intiwa…
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