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View ArticleThe Pinalito main hydroelectric tunnel, with a length of 11 km, is located in Cordillera Central mountain range, Dominican Republic. This mountain tunnel has been mined through extremely fractured andesitic-basaltic and rhyolitic tuffs. These rocks are been subjected to shear and collisional displacements between Caribbean and North America plates since...
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