All 25 Uses of
fissure
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Verne trnsl by G&F - 44 chptrs
- At the approach of an eruption these spouts of vapor redouble their activity—to disappear altogether during the period of volcanic eruption; for the elastic fluids, no longer having the necessary tension, seek refuge in the interior of the crater, instead of escaping through the fissures of the earth.†
Chpt 11
- At a later period in the world's history, a huge and mighty fissure must, reasoning by analogy, have been dug diagonally from the southwest to the northeast of the island, through which by degrees flowed the volcanic crust.†
Chpt 12
- Hans, whenever he met with one of these obstacles, advanced with a great show of precaution, sounding the soil with his long iron pole in order to discover fissures and layers of deep soft snow.†
Chpt 13
- The lamps were hung to fissures in the lava rock.†
Chpt 15 *
- Hence arose numerous fissures, and continual falling in of the upper earth.†
Chpt 17
- When the whole earth got cool in the first hours of the world's morning, the diminution of the volume of the earth produced a state of dislocation in its upper crust, followed by ruptures, crevasses and fissures.†
Chpt 19
- The passage was a fissure of this kind, through which, ages ago, had flowed the eruptive granite.†
Chpt 19
- Hans picked up all the broken pieces of granite he had knocked out, and using some tow he happened to have about him, tried to shut up the fissure he had made in the wall.†
Chpt 20
- This well was a kind of narrow opening in the massive granite of the kind known as a fissure.†
Chpt 21
- It is scarcely necessary to say that in this curiously shaped fissure the Hansbach had become a cascade to the detriment of its size.†
Chpt 21
- During the whole of two days, the sixth and seventh of July, we followed the extraordinary spiral staircase of the fissure, penetrating two leagues farther into the crust of the earth, which put us five leagues below the level of the sea.†
Chpt 21
- On the eighth, however, at twelve o'clock in the day, the fissure suddenly assumed a much more gentle slope still trending in a southeast direction.†
Chpt 21
- It was at this moment that I had reason to bless the thoughtfulness of my uncle, when he refused to allow the eider hunter to close the orifices of the hot spring—that small fissure in the great mass of granite.†
Chpt 23
- That in which you are now lying must necessarily bring you to this point, for it appears that all these mighty fissures, these fractures of the globe's interior, radiate from the vast cavern which we at this moment occupy.†
Chpt 25
- "It is a ray of the blessed daylight," I said to myself, "which has penetrated through some mighty fissure in the rocks.†
Chpt 26
- I had also no doubt that this mysterious sea was fed by infiltration of the ocean above, through imperceptible fissures.†
Chpt 34
- Nevertheless, it was impossible not to admit that these fissures must now be nearly choked up, for if not, the cavern, or rather the immense and stupendous reservoir, would have been completely filled in a short space of time.†
Chpt 34
- The Professor, who was now in his element, carefully examined every rocky fissure.†
Chpt 34
- Doubtless, if we carry ourselves back to the Quaternary epoch, we shall find that great and mighty convulsions took place in the crust of the earth; the continually cooling operation, through which the earth had to pass, produced fissures, landslips, and chasms, through which a large portion of the earth made its way.†
Chpt 35
- Prodigiously interested, we walked along the wall of rock, examining the smallest fissures, which might finally expand into the much wished—for gully or shaft.†
Chpt 37
- Look at these recent fissures in the granite roof; it is evidently formed of pieces of enormous stone, placed here as if by the hand of a giant, who had worked to make a strong and substantial arch.†
Chpt 38
- The explosion had caused a kind of earthquake in this soil, broken by fissures and rents.†
Chpt 39
- I gazed wildly around, and at last discovered a fissure in the rock, to which I rushed in the hope of recovering my scattered senses.†
Chpt 40
- The mineral crust was about to burst, the heavy granite masses were about to rejoin, the fissure was about to close, the void was about to be filled up, and we poor atoms to be crushed in its awful embrace!†
Chpt 42
- The gallery is rapidly becoming wider and wider, and if it be necessary, we will presently leave the raft and take refuge in some fissure in the rock.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(fissure) a long, narrow crack; or its creation -- especially in the ground or in rock
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation