Middle East
Israel
Southern District

Dike

In geology, a dike or dyke is a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either magmatic or sedimentary in origin.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: sheet of rock formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body
  • Also known as: “dike” and “dyke”

Dike

Latitude
30.61358° or 30° 36′ 49″ north
Longitude
34.95662° or 34° 57′ 24″ east
Open location code
8G2PJX74+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6269192285
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q662806
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Dike” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جدة قاطعة”
  • Arabic: “جيب نافذ”
  • Aragonese: “Dique”
  • Armenian: “Դայք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dayka”
  • Basque: “Dike (geologia)”
  • Basque: “Dike”
  • Belarusian: “Дайка”
  • Bengali: “ডাইক (শিলা)”
  • Bengali: “ডাইক”
  • Bulgarian: “Дайка”
  • Catalan: “dic”
  • Catalan: “Dic”
  • Chinese: “岩脈”
  • Czech: “dajka”
  • Czech: “Dajka”
  • Dutch: “dike”
  • Dutch: “Dike”
  • Estonian: “Daik”
  • Finnish: “Juoni”
  • French: “dyke”
  • French: “Dyke”
  • Galician: “Dique”
  • Georgian: “დაიკი”
  • German: “Dike”
  • German: “Dyke”
  • Haitian: “Filon”
  • Hebrew: “דייק”
  • Hindi: “डाइक”
  • Hungarian: “dájk”
  • Hungarian: “dike”
  • Hungarian: “dyke”
  • Hungarian: “haránttelér”
  • Hungarian: “Haránttelér”
  • Icelandic: “Berggangar”
  • Indonesian: “Dike”
  • Indonesian: “Korok”
  • Irish: “dingeán”
  • Irish: “Dingeán”
  • Italian: “Dicco”
  • Japanese: “岩脈”
  • Kazakh: “Дайка”
  • Kirghiz: “Дайка”
  • Korean: “암맥”
  • Lithuanian: “Daika”
  • Macedonian: “дајк”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “gang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gang i geologi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “gang”
  • Persian: “آذرین‌تیغه”
  • Polish: “Dajka”
  • Portuguese: “dique”
  • Portuguese: “Dique”
  • Russian: “Дайка”
  • Serbian: “дајк”
  • Serbian: “Дајк”
  • Slovenian: “dajk”
  • Slovenian: “Dajk”
  • Slovenian: “diskordantna injekcija”
  • Slovenian: “navpična žila”
  • Slovenian: “prečna žila”
  • Spanish: “dique”
  • Spanish: “Dique”
  • Swedish: “gång”
  • Swedish: “Gång”
  • Turkish: “Dayk”
  • Ukrainian: “Дайка”
  • Uzbek: “Daika”

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