NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
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DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
TOILS ON WEAK SOILS:
A PHOTO-ESSAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE STOCKWOOD FILL (1906 - 1909)
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| In 1906, the Northern Pacific Railway began construction of a massive railroad embankment in northwestern Minnesota. Almost immediately, the embankment began to sink into the earth under its own great weight . . .
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S.P. Wange photo, © Clay County Historical Society
Donald P. Schwert, Department of Geosciences,
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
Mark E. Peihl, Clay County Historical Society,
202 1st Avenue N., Moorhead, MN 56560
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