fissures

• Gouts of smoke belched from the fissures, and fires spouted from the distant cone with a horrendous roar Sy-wen had never felt so alone. —  Witch Star.htm
• This was explained by the fact that the fissures were then free from any moisture arising from surface melting, so that the passage through them was unimpeded Distrust has been thrown upon these results by the failure of more recent attempts to repeat the same experiments. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• A reddish-brown surface, streaked here and there with dark grey veins, whose cratered terrain was split and cracked by labyrinthine networks of crevices, fissures, and canyons. —  Asimov'sSF,February2008
• In the rougher basin slopes they zigzagged past boulders, fissures, and frequent shipwrecks rising from the rocky soil. —  WorldsEnough ;Time
• Vast fissures--_barrancas_--were filled with the drift; and it was perilous to attempt penetrating in either direction. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire

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