What is the origin of the dykes of modern volcanic districts?
Dykes are wall-like masses of igneous strata which cut across the strata, generally at a high angle (see d, d, fig.
These dykes appear in some cases to have been formed by the filling up of crevices from above--the liquid lava having filtered downwards from an overflowing mass.
In the British Islands some dykes have been followed in a linear direction for very long distances.
In volcanic districts, the rocks are often traversed by more or less vertical dykes or veins of igneous matter.
In the neighbourhood of a recent volcanic orifice, numerous dykes are seen ramifying in all directions.
Sometimes the veins and dykes which proceed from or occur near a mass of granite contain no mica--this kind of rock is called elvan or elvanite.
On June 18 he cut the dykes which protected the low-lying land from the sea which stood at a higher level.
I find no more letters, beyond mere notes and invitations, until the end of 1893, but it was during these years that I saw Patmore most often, generally when I was staying with Dykes Campbell at St. Leonards.
The first letter in my bundle is not addressed to me, but to the friend through whom I was afterwards to meet him, the kindest and most helpful friend whom I or any man ever had, James Dykes Campbell.
Canals that could be tightly closed up led from the dykes to the land within, and smaller branch-cuttings to the gardens of Thebes.
These dykesof the Fens are accursed things: they are the separation of friends and lovers.
The dykes have to be watched and mended all the time," said Father Vedder.
The dykes have to be watched day and night all the time, and the least bit of a hole stopped up right away, so it can't grow any bigger and let in the sea.
I thanked her, clapped on my dripping bonnet, and made for the dykes beyond the garden.
Weeds made a carpet on the avenue, and the dykes were broke by cattle at a dozen places.
He met the proposition with the dry remark, "I never big dykes till the tenants complain.
It forms part of an intrusive mass which, on the south and west cliffs of the island, has a columnar arrangement and is traversed by dykes of dolerite, most of which run in a north-west direction.
The city held out obstinately against the pretensions of the stadtholders, and in 1650 opened the dykes in order to prevent William II.
From the rice-paddies and dykes rose wavering mists of heat.
Beyond that were open fields with rice-dykes and cane--a place of comparative security not yet attained.
The country was becoming more and more like what one imagines Holland ought to be; the whole country practically a vast, sandy, sea-girt land of dykes and canals, and dunes and sunken gardens.
And here are the Dutch, driven by the Bloody Alva into the North Sea, clinging to the dykes by their finger-tips, and fighting their way back to their homes and altars.
As Mr. Dykes Campbell has pointed out, the consequences of this second rupture were fatal to Coleridge's peace of mind and to his well-being generally.
After getting through, we came upon the lands belonging to this village--rice-fields with the dykes burst, and all the beautiful ridge and furrow cultivation of the other crops carried away.
The people were busy drying their tatami, futons, and clothing, reconstructing their dykes and small bridges, and fishing for the logs which were still coming down in large quantities.
Thaine knew that around that bend and behind the rice dykes and in the nearby trenches were Filipino insurgents with finger on the trigger ready to begin an assault.
They rushed across the rice fields, whose low dykes gave little protection from the enemy.
My men were waiting for me at the appointed place, and ten minutes' precarious scrambling along the narrowdykes between the fields brought me to the great highway leading to the capital, four days' march away.
At all events, in the channel and the dykes one may pretty well do as one likes, and no attempt has ever been made to set up an exclusive right to the rivers.
This Broad is also much affected by the tide, as, notwithstanding its distance from the river, there are numerous connecting dykespermitting easy flow and re-flow of water.
Wherever the beach has been swept bare, we see it floored with trap-dykes worn down to the level, but in most places accumulations of huge blocks of various composition cover it up, concealing the nature of the rock beneath.
They were of all shapes and sizes, and were divided from each other by little green fringed dykes or walls.
For travelers there were only narrow paths between farms, and often only the ridge of the dykes between field and field.
The clouds overhead hurried like the dykes and the streams.
In the great dykes or drains to which the pastures were due, the water, swollen with recent rain, could be seen hurrying to join the rivers and the sea.
The mud dykes and the rice fields usually are covered with tracks of civets, mongooses, and cats which come to hunt frogs or fish, but if a trap is set it either catches a Chinaman or promptly is stolen.
From a patch of ground as level as a floor, where our tents were pitched, we could look across the brown rice dykes to the enclosing walls of jungle and up to the green mountain beyond.
It is worthy of note that the dykes and sheets of felsite are seldom pierced by the basalt dykes and are probably about the most recent of the intrusive rocks.
In the south of the island there are sills and dykes of felsite, quartz-porphyry, rhyolite, trachyte and pitchstone.
Finally the basic dykes of dolerite, basalt and augite-andesite are abundant and traverse the various sedimentary formations and the granite.
There were no dykes built round my resolve to propose to Nell within the space of four and twenty hours; and between Alb's eloquence and the L.
Do you think our motor-boat could ride on the flood, and drag 'Waterspin,' if any of the most important dykes or dams happened to burst?
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