 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 pages
...running along the ground, and projecting, like a wall, from the strata on both sides of them being worn away, they are called in the north of England and in Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 422 pages
...plant having two cotyledons or seed-lobes. Etym., iis, dis, double, and KoTv\n$ov, cotyledon. DIKES. When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks,...called in the north of England and in Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - 420 pages
...having two cotyledons or seed-lobes. Etym., Sis, dis, double, and KoTuAi1Sov, cotyledon. DIKES. V/hen a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks, such...called in the north of England and in Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 420 pages
...seed-lobes. Etym., ta, dis, double, and KoTuA?1Sov, cotyledon. DIKES. When a mass of the unstratiiied or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, and lava,...called in the north of England and in Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...if injected into a great rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dyke ; and as they are sometimes seen running along the ground,...away, they are called in the north of England and in Scotland dykes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dykes and veins.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 pages
...plant having two cotyledons or seed-lobes. Etym., Sis, dis, double, and K<rrv\rfiov, cotyledon. DIKES. When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks,...called in the north of England and in Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 pages
...appears as if injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They are sometimes seen running along the ground,...softer strata on both sides of them having wasted away; whence they were first called in the north of England and in Scotland dilum, a provincial name for... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pages
...appear as if injected into rents in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, they form dikes. They are sometimes seen running along the ground,...softer strata on both sides of them having wasted away ; whence they were first called, in the north of England and in Scotland, dikes — a provincial name... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They arc sometimes seen running along the ground, and projecting,...softer strata on both sides of them having wasted away ; whence they were first called in the north of England and in Scotland dikta, a provincial name for... | |
 | Missouri. State geologist, George Clinton Swallow - 1855 - 496 pages
...if injected into a great rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dyke ; and as they are sometimes seen running along the ground,...away, they are called, in the north of England and Scotland, Dykes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dykes and veins.... | |
| |
Scotland dikes, the provincial name for wall. It is not easy to draw the line between dikes and veins. The former are generally of larger dimensions, and have their sides parallel for considerable distances; while veins have generally many ramifications,... 
