All 15 Uses of
fissure
in
Journey to the Center of the Earth - trnsl by M - 45 chptrs
- Its surface was composed of a great number of metals, such as potassium and sodium, which have the peculiar property of igniting at the mere contact with air and water; these metals kindled when the atmospheric vapours fell in rain upon the soil; and by and by, when the waters penetrated into the fissures of the crust of the earth, they broke out into fresh combustion with explosions and eruptions.†
Chpt 6
- For the elastic fluids, being no longer under pressure, go off by way of the crater instead of escaping by their usual passages through the fissures in the soil.†
Chpt 14
- Thence innumerable fissures and depressions.†
Chpt 20
- When in its early stages the earth was slowly cooling, its contraction gave rise in its crust to disruptions, distortions, fissures, and chasms.†
Chpt 22
- The passage through which we were moving was such a fissure, through which at one time granite poured out in a molten state.†
Chpt 22
- But in my opinion this liquid mass would be lost by degrees farther and farther within the interior of the earth, and it certainly had its origin in the waters of the ocean overhead, which had made their way hither through some fissure.†
Chpt 37
- Yet it must be believed that that fissure is now closed, and that all this cavern or immense reservoir was filled in a very short time.†
Chpt 37
- The Professor was carefully examining every little fissure in the rocks.
Chpt 37 *fissure = long narrow crack
- We moved with difficulty across these granite fissures and chasms mingled with silex, crystals of quartz, and alluvial deposits, when a field, nay, more than a field, a vast plain, of bleached bones lay spread before us.†
Chpt 37
- The long-continued cooling of the globe produced chasms, fissures, clefts, and faults, into which, very probably, portions of the upper earth may have fallen.†
Chpt 38
- Had all those creatures slided through a great fissure in the crust of the earth, down to the shores of the Liedenbrock sea, when they were dead and turning to dust, or had they lived and grown and died here in this subterranean world under a false sky, just like inhabitants of the upper earth?†
Chpt 38
- And, wonderfully interested, we peered all along the high wall, peeping into every fissure which might open out into a gallery.†
Chpt 39
- See here are recent fissures grooving and channelling the granite roof.†
Chpt 40
- The explosion had caused a kind of earthquake in this fissured and abysmal region; a great gulf had opened; and the sea, now changed into a torrent, was hurrying us along into it.†
Chpt 41
- The mineral crust of the globe threatened to burst up, the granite foundations to come together with a crash, the fissure through which we were helplessly driven would be filled up, the void would be full of crushed fragments of rock, and we poor wretched mortals were to be buried and annihilated in this dreadful consummation.†
Chpt 43
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