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dike

sheet of rock formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body
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dike

Summary

dike ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,114 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dike is a type of rock formation[2].
  • dike is a type of volcanic landform[3].
  • dike is a type of igneous intrusion[4].
  • dike's Commons category is recorded as Dike (geology)[5].
  • dike's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dikes (geology)[6].
  • dike's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[7].
  • dike's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • dike's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • dike's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[10].
  • dike's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000671[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include rock formation[2], volcanic landform[3], and igneous intrusion[4].

Why It Matters

dike ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,114 views/month).[1] dike has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] dike is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2627609
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → rock formation, volcanic landform, igneous intrusion
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007555310405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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