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Definition of Dikes
1. dike [v] - See also: dike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dikes
Literary usage of Dikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"GEM MINERALS OF THE PEGMATITIC dikes. In the pegmatite veins of North Carolina
are found so many minerals of gem value* that a short description of these ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"Many dikes have been discovered in the north-south joint planes, ... However, as
the dikes were probably intruded while the rocks were being folded, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"of the dikes. The surfaces of the dikes are quite irregular, giving a more or
less wavy line in section, but the planes of contact of most of the dikes are ..."
4. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Discrimination Between Veins and dikes.—In their field occurrence dikes and veins
... dikes are formed by the consolidation, usually the crystallization, ..."
5. Geological Observations on South America: Being the Third Part of the by Charles Darwin (1846)
"In the gneiss, concretions of granular feldspar and others of garnets with mica
occur. The gneiss is traversed by numerous dikes composed of black, ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"THE dikes. Through the entire area examined the dikes were found to cut the shaly
... It seems probable that the outlying dikes are more or less closely ..."
7. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1913)
"CHAPTER XXVI MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE PEGMATITE dikes INTRODUCTION Each large
intrusive mass is usually accompanied by a series of later dikes. ..."
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