Figure 17. Close up view of quarry marks. Below the 10-cm scale stick the groove in which wood wedges soaked with water were jammed is clearly visible. Because of the fine-grained igneous texture, the basalt blocks split of smoothly, similar to a flint sliver knapped from a core. 1 November, 2016.
Figure 20. Reservoir 13 with water remaining to an average depth of one meter. In the foreground one can see the shelf of exposed bedrock floor and the algae bloom in the shallower water. 26 October 2016.
Figure 9. Reservoir R7 after cleanout, with 20th century plaster intact. 27 October 2016.
Fig. 6. Supply channel created by the Masa’eid to direct the overflow from R13 to Reservoir R7. 2 Nov. 2016.
Figure 19. Refilling the bulldozer gauges on the west edge of Reservoir R16. 29 October, 2016.
Figure 24. Team 1. The group that worked the first two weeks and is mostly responsible for the clearing and cleaning of reservoirs R7 and R31.
Figure 7. Reservoir R31 just after the cleanout began, 11 Oct. 2016.
Figure 22. Crew members begin cleaning of sediment and algae. 26 October, 2016
