fissure

• One of the reports said Ozgan's team could not have been aware of an internal crack in the base of the column because the fissure was covered in calcite. —  Signs of the Times
• Traveling along the fissure was fast but it did not negate the sometimes dramatic changes in elevation that occured regularly. —  Backpacking Light Magazine
• 'It will be no fun if this is the end of our skate, and we can't get to Cronstadt Perhaps it's only a local crack; we will skate along it, first one way and then the other, and see We did so, but it appeared that the spot at which we originally struck the fissure was the narrowest place; it widened at either side We stood and stared at it. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
• This fissure was about four feet wide at the bottom, the walls sloping inwards, like a roof, until they met at a height of seven or eight feet from the ground. —  The Voyage of the Aurora
• And a fissure was there, a scarcely perceptible crack that had rent the old, sworn friendships, and some day would make them crumble into a thousand pieces However, Sandoz, with his craving for perpetuity, had so far noticed nothing; he still beheld them as they had been in the Rue d'Enfer, all arm in arm, starting off to victory. —  His Masterpiece

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