Dikes are tabular or sheet-like bodies of magma that cut through and across the layering of adjacent rocks and then solidify. They form when magma rises into a fracture or creates a new crack by ...

Almost 500 breaches were punched in flood-control dikes, allowing the North Sea to spill into Zeeland, South Holland and North Brabant provinces. By Feb. 1, about 770 square miles of southern ...

"Hopefully, it will be a preventive step for tidal floods in several points that always occur," said Jakarta Governor Pramono ...

The municipality's planners say they need to raise new dikes and protect the city.City of Merritt A new federal program designed to finance reconstruction after disaster will now offer money to ...