Dike (mythology) - Wikipedia Dike left Earth for the sky, from which, as the constellation, she watched the despicable human race After her departure, the human race declined into the Bronze Age, when diseases arose and humanity learned how to sail
DIKE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com A dike is a structure made of earth or stone that's used to hold back water If you visit the Netherlands, you can see their elaborate system of dikes, without which much of the country would be underwater
Dike | Volcanic, Intrusive Magma | Britannica Dike, in geology, tabular or sheetlike igneous body that is often oriented vertically or steeply inclined to the bedding of preexisting intruded rocks; similar bodies oriented parallel to the bedding of the enclosing rocks are called sills
Dike - National Geographic Society A dike is a barrier used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake, or even the ocean In geology, a dike is a large slab of rock that cuts through another type of rock
dike - definition and meaning - Wordnik The property is bisected by an immense straight dike, which is called the Middle Wash, and which is so sluggish, so straight, so ugly, and so deep, as to impress the mind of a stranger with the ideas of suicide
Dike (geology) - Wikipedia In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin Magmatic dikes form when magma flows into a crack then solidifies as a sheet intrusion, either cutting across layers of rock or through a contiguous mass of rock
Dike - definition of dike by The Free Dictionary I remember the remains of one upon an island in a small lake near Lerwick, which at high tide communicates with the sea, the access to which is very ingenious, by means of a causeway or dike, about three or four inches under the surface of the water