Sentences with 'fissure'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fissure and other words derived from it.
• « Millions of years later, the gems rose to the surface, carried by a stream of magma through a fissure in the earth's crust. Upon colliding with the water layers underground, the magma shot outwards in several volcanic eruptions, scattering the diamonds across the countryside. »
• « In 1973, the Helgafell volcano in Iceland exploded through a fissure. On one of its flanks, the eruption lasted for five months. »