dike

They propose that magma from a thermal-chemical plume rose through the plate, created the dike swarms, and then reacted with the surrounding mantle rock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

To suggest the Dutch are clueless about combat is like suggesting they don’t know how to build a dike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

The organization will run out of money for dike maintenance in Bentiu by February, after months of some of the most severe flooding in years.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

I looked for the soldier from Charlie Company who had been waving his arm at the dike.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Big Bend, bordering Mexico in West Texas, features volcanic dikes, dinosaur bones and stunning canyon views.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The new study examined dikes, which are narrow fractures that could theoretically serve as channels for ocean water moving upward through the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

But Spanish invaders obliterated the Aztec capital in the 16th century, smashing dikes and other Indigenous hydraulic works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

“Stay away from the dikes and work back toward the staging area!”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

In the early 1900s, this land was diked and drained to create farmland.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

An estimated 40% of the original wetland has been diked, drained or destroyed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

Among the dire conditions, some hope arises: In times of drought, work to restore diked shoreline and salt works back to tidal marsh and shallow ponds is paying off for birds.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 16, 2015

For the past 150 years, the marshy area where salmon bred and fed has been dried, diked and dammed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014

There was nothing but knots and knots; all diked up and tangles by the mile.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson

The Corps of Engineers has to approve the permits because work will be done near the Columbia River diking system and in and around wetlands, Bennett added.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Oystermen started diking tidelands and cultivating the precious bivalves like a crop — and for a while, they prospered.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

"We need to repair 75 years of diking and draining, but that takes time," he said.

From US News ● Jul. 1, 2016

The Souris was ripping along at 6,610 cfs at Broadway Bridge, a higher flow than what much of the diking in the city was believed able to contain.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2016

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann