Fishermen who don't have boats do well also from the Texas City Dike, the Lighted Pier at the end of the dike, and from beachfront rock groins or piers. |
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Dike was succeeded as Chief of the Defence Staff in 2010 by Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin. |
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The water seeping from the surrounding moorland Rake Dike is the source of the River Holme. |
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On 11 March 1864, the previous wooden bridge was swept away by the Great Sheffield Flood, caused by the collapse of Dale Dike Dam. |
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Kirklees Council officers visited hundreds of properties to trace the source of raw sewage seeping into a stream at local beauty spot, Rakes Dike in Hepworth. |
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I'd expected to climb up the dike and see the water lapping the top of it on the other side! |
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Certain geologic formations that underlie the dike, and portions of the material that comprise it, bear a striking resemblance to Swiss cheese. |
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Calcite, along with epidote, fills small vesicles in the basaltic dike rock. |
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After that, she led us along a thin, icy path on a dike between the channel and a deep, muddy ditch with sharp sticks jutting up from the bottom. |
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The area flanks Lake Pontchartrain and suffered from floods when a canal dike burst. |
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Mafic dike suites within Mesozoic igneous provinces of New England and Atlantic Canada. |
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In the conduit where the crust cracked, the magma crystallizes and forms a dike. |
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They had learned to dike and farm the tidal marshlands along the Bay of Fundy. |
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The plates continue to spread apart, the crust cracks again, another eruption of lava occurs, and another dike forms. |
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It's a sort of finger in the dike approach with no clear vision, but maybe no one has a clear vision. |
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The vegetated area may be either a long, grassed, gently sloping channel or a broad, flat area with a slight slope away from the inlet surrounded by a berm or dike. |
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A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike. |
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For example, on 18 November 1421, a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike broke, which flooded 72 villages and killed about 10,000 people. |
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The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water. |
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The dike slope reduces the energy of the incoming sea, so that the dike itself does not receive the full impact. |
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While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides. |
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New risk assessments occasionally show problems requiring additional Delta project dike reinforcements. |
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The world's largest dike swarm is the Mackenzie dike swarm in the Northwest Territories, Canada. |
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In the late Middle Ages, the dike system was gradually strengthened and flooding diminished. |
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In contrast, a dike is a discordant intrusive sheet, which does cut across older rocks. |
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Such dike swarms may form a large igneous province and are the roots of a volcanic province. |
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However, the primary geometry of most giant dike swarms is poorly known due to their age and subsequent tectonic activity. |
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To protect Ys from inundation, a dike was built with a gate that was opened for ships during low tide. |
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The magma then extruded outward from a dike to form a volcanic dome over the tuff. |
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From 356 m to 466m the drill hole intersected a massive dike of carbonatitic appearance. |
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Then to the ditch where the way Esne delves, then of down to the top of the dike, then of down to the brook to Tid's ford. |
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Prospect pits and minor workings mark the Huichapa vein zone and its accompanying aphanite porphyry dike for approximately 1500 meters on surface. |
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A proposed development project, the Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal, centres on constructing a large dike to separate southern James Bay from Hudson Bay. |
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This required the oil companies to build dikes and drain the land in order to build their facilities, Dutch Shell takes credit for some of the most enduring dike systems. |
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He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland. |
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A dike swarm is a large geological structure consisting of a major group of parallel, linear, or radially oriented dikes intruded within continental crust. |
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Aerally extensive dike swarms, sill provinces, and large layered ultramafic intrusions are indicators of LIPs, even when other evidence is not now observable. |
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An intrusive dike is an igneous body with a very high aspect ratio, which means that its thickness is usually much smaller than the other two dimensions. |
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This can result in the emplacement of dike swarms, such as those that are observable across the Canadian shield, or rings of dikes around the lava tube of a volcano. |
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The dike cuts the older andesites in the northeastern and central parts of the district and flat-lying rhyolite ash-flow tuffs in the southwestern areas. |
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The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do. |
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