Fissures
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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.
More example sentences with word fissures
Narrow-edged feet allowed me to climb steep rock fissures, where the human foot cannot penetrate, and spiked feet enabled me to climb vertical ice walls, without ever experiencing muscle leg fatigue.
We find them in
fissures
of rock miles beneath our feet, in boiling waters of the ocean floor, in acidic waters of thermal springs, and in cloud droplets miles above our heads.
But I knew that epidemics emerge along the
fissures
of our society, reflecting not only biology, but more importantly patterns of marginalization, exclusion, discrimination related to race, gender, sexuality, class and more.
And these faults would release these petrochemical fumes from underneath the Earth's crust, and the oracle literally sat right above these faults, inhaling enormous amounts of ethylene gas, these
fissures.
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