We think the similar locations of the modeled open crack with the fissures indicate that the crack is not a new one; that is, it was the reopening of a preexisting crack that once formed a fissure eruption in the past.
If so, the best hope is an earthquake, they say, that might create a fissure.
The portion that remains in a fissure below the surface usually forms a vertical black tubular body known as a dike (or dyke).
Plunderphonic was a bold statement, a line in the sand that was really a fissure, exposing just how vast the distance between our cultural appreciation for sampling and copyright laws really was.
He had a feud with quarterback Donovan McNabb that caused a fissure in the locker room, and he had verbal confrontations with members of the coaching staff.
For instance, one little moment that reveals a fissure in the relationship shows Chris reading and Gitti chatting, and he asks her to stop bothering him and let him read.
Mr. Shanley complicates this feeling of gender ambiguity later when Father Flynn, having gone to Sister Aloysius's office for a meeting, sits behind her desk without asking permission, an assertion of power that opens a fissure in his easygoing facade and says more about the church and gender than any of their increasingly heated exchanges.
There is a fissure that runs all through the steps to one of the big cisterns and that can be traced in the rest of the building; the tower has been reinforced with stones that are banked about the base; and there is a room with a propped-up wall that appears to have been closed and condemned.
Tethys, major regular moon of Saturn, remarkable for a fissure that wraps around the greater part of its circumference.
Goldin contributes to the tradition a fissure that is internal, not between the self and the world but right down the self's middle.
