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What are dykes?

What are dykes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of dyke
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Dolerite dykes that cut the peridotite show chilled margins and local metasomatic calcic alteration.
The boundary between the sheeted dykes and pillow lavas is tectonic, and because of shearing, the pillow basalts are locally poorly preserved.
A tholeiitic suite of dolerite dykes in the southwestern Borrowdale Volcanic Group is a separate, later magmatic event.
A stockwork of dykes of mainly jotunitic composition crosscuts the anorthosite bodies and the lopolith.
Within the Grenville basement these are represented by alkalic to tholeiitic mafic dykes and alkalic to peralkaline granite plutons.
To explore this possibility both the anisotropy of susceptibility and the anisotropy of magnetic remanence of the dykes were measured.

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