 | Virginia Geological Survey - 1836 - 552 pages
...of a portion of the solid materials of the land, by which inferior rocks are laid bare. Dykes. — When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks,...stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dyke ; and as they are sometimes seen running along the ground, and projecting, like a wall, from the... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 pages
...having two cotyledon*, or seed-lobes. Etym., Sis, dil, double, and KoruAtISo^, cotyledon. t DIKES. When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks,...granite, trap, and lava, appears as if injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They are sometimes seen running... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pages
...cotyledons, or seed-lobes. Etym., ,Jif, di•s, double, itoTvXq,Jof, cotyledon. DIKES. When masses of the unstratified or igneous rocks — such as granite, trap, and lava — appear as if injected into rents in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, they form... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1848 - 186 pages
...dip :" — its degree of inclination to the horizon " the amount " or " angle of dip." DYKE or DIKE. A mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, &c. appearing as if injected into a great rent in the stratified rocks; cutting across the strata.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...seed-lobes. Etym., Its, dit, double, and comAirJor, cotyledon. DIKES. When a mass of the mist ratified or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, and lava, appears as if injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They arc sometimes seen running... | |
 | Missouri. State geologist, George Clinton Swallow - 1855 - 496 pages
...Low hills of blown sand that skirt the shores of Holland, England, Spain and other countries. Dykes. When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks,...stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dyke ; and as they are sometimes seen running along the ground, and projecting, like a wall, from the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 pages
...the plant having two cotyltdom, or Bccd-lobos. Etym., In, dU, double, and ron>>v&>, cotyledon. DIKES. When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, and lava, appears ns if injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1875 - 586 pages
...navel). A monster having a double hypogastrium and pelvis. Dikes. Geol. When a mass of the unstratined or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, and lava, appears as if injected into a rent in the stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. They are sometimes seen running... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 714 pages
...been intruded in a melted state into rents or fissures of rocks, ul it-ii a mass of the unstralifled or igneous rocks, such as granite, trap, and lava,...rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dike. The illustrations show lava dikes in the Val del Bove. on the slopes of Mount Etna. In fig. 1 aa are... | |
 | William Barton Rogers - 1884 - 880 pages
...portion of the solid materials of the land, by which inferior rocks arc laid bare. Dykes. — Wlien a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks, such...stratified rocks, cutting across the strata, it forms a dyke ; and as they are sometimes seen running along the ground, and projecting, like a wall, from the... | |
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When a mass of the unstratified or igneous rocks, such as Granite, Trap, and Lava, appears as 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,... 
