| These granite dikes are composed almost totally of potassium feldspar and quartz. |
| The need to build dikes was a key factor in causing the early settlers to request status as a municipality. |
| In some cases, concrete and stone retaining walls and dikes are erected along banks to stave off overflow in heavy rain. |
| A swarm of mafic igneous dikes have intruded the Estes pegmatite and make a showy display in the quarry face. |
| The seismic data show faulting of the subsurface sediments, possibly as dikes were injected into the center of the basin. |
| Even today the Dutch are famous for impoldering, building dikes and all kinds of water control. |
