MONUMENTAL CRACKS ENGINEERS SURVEY MOUNT RUSHMORE

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: December 1, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

MOUNT RUSHMORE, S.D. - Round, black markers dotted the huge stone faces of four US presidents yesterday as a project got under way to develop a long-term maintenance plan for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

National Park Service employees and workers from an engineering firm carefully positioned the markers on the 60-foot-tall granite faces so a photographer in a helicopter could take close-up pictures today of cracks that may threaten the structural integrity of the sculpted mountainside.

"The ultimate purpose is so we can actually map those cracks and make models of the ...

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