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 58108-6050
Mark E. Peihl, Clay County Historical Society,
202 1st Avenue N., Moorhead, MN 56560
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