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• Cross-cutting relationships — Cross cutting relations can be used to determine the relative ages of rock strata and other geological structures. Explanations: A folded rock strata cut by a thrust fault; B large intrusion (cutting through A); C erosional angular unconformity… …   Wikipedia

• Dike (geology) — Banded gneiss with dike of granite orthogneiss. An intrusion (Notch Peak monzonite) inter fingers (partly as a dike …   Wikipedia

• Dike (construction) — A dike (or dyke), levee, levée, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen and often parallels the course of a river. [ Citation | title=Levees and Other Raised Ground | author=Henry Petroski |… …   Wikipedia

• dike — dike1 diker, n. /duyk/, n., v., diked, diking. n. 1. an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town. 2. a ditch. 3. a bank of earth… …   Universalium

• dike — I or dyke I [[t]daɪk[/t]] n. v. diked, dik•ing 1) civ an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river 2) civ ditch 3) civ a bank of earth formed of material being excavated 4) civ causeway 5) an obstacle; barrier 6) …   From formal English to slang

• dike — ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY GLOSSARY A tabular igneous intrusion that cuts across the host bedrock. GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS A discordant, sheetlike body igneous body formed from the injection of magma into a fracture within the brittle crust of …   Glossary of volcanic terms

• Scots' Dike — The Scots Dike or dyke is a three and a half mile / 5.25 km long linear earthwork, constructed by the English and the Scots in the year 1552Mack, James Logan (1926). The Border Line. Pub. Oliver Boyd. P. 94.] to mark the division of the Debatable …   Wikipedia

• Clastic dike — Vertical clastic dike, filled with coarse basaltic sand, cuts lighter colored horizontal beds composed of finer grained material. Quarter for scale. A clastic dike is a seam of sedimentary material that fills a crack in and cuts across… …   Wikipedia

• Puerto Rican recipients of the Navy Cross — Puerto Ricans have served as members of the United States Armed Forces and have fought in every major conflict in which the United States has been involved from World War I onward. Many Puerto Ricans, including those of Puerto Rican descent, have …   Wikipedia

• Draining and development of the Everglades — Satellite image of the northern Everglades with developed areas in 2001, including the Everglades Agricultural Area (in red), Water Conservation Areas 1, 2, and 3, a …   Wikipedia

• Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland — Part of War of the Second Coalition Departure of the Anglo Russian troops from Den He …   Wikipedia