When fully developed, it presents an ulcerated, fissuredand papillomatous surface, with an ichorous discharge which dries to crusts.
The ore bodies are in fissured zones in serpentine and Jurassic sediments, and are related in general to recent volcanic flows.
The deposits of the Hunan Province of southern China occur as seams, pockets, and bunches of stibnite ore in gently undulating beds of faulted and fissured dolomitic limestone.
The white-walled villas glisten in the dazzling heat, not tempered by the slightest shade, but reflecting back the scorching glow from rocks cracked and fissured by the sun!
The trunk is from two to eight feet in diameter, and the bark brown or reddish, closely fissured into rough ridges.
In the stream, fissured ice drifted down a wide, dark channel; one felt that spring was coming.
The snow was thin and crisp beneath the trees, the air exhilarating, and through openings they caught glimpses of fissured glaciers, rocks that glistened in the steely light, and majestic glittering peaks.
The slope of the valley was so extremely abrupt, that the surface of the glacier was fissured in a most extraordinary manner; and it was still partially covered with snow.
The three branches which united to form this grand sea of ice were very steep, and consequently much fissured and fractured.
It was terminated abruptly by a perpendicular cliff, which projected more in the centre than on the sides, and was much and deeply fissured both horizontally and perpendicularly.
In all these instances it is clear that the gaseous fluids must have made their way through vast thicknesses of porous or fissured rocks, and their modifying influence may spread through the crust for thousands of yards in thickness.
The river broke up into countless channels, running through barren, fissured plains.
The first excursion from there towards the telegraph line, some ninety miles away, resulted, in such days of heat, in conjunction with cracked and fissured plains, that three horses died before returning to camp.
They stumbled on in the dark once more, lighting now and again for a minute or two one of his six precious matches--he had no more in his case--and exploring as well as they might the whole broken surface of that fissured pinnacle.
As soon as day broke Eustace looked out from their eyrie on the fissured peak, and down upon the troubled belt of water below.
Two hundred yards from the brink, the shelf-ice was thrown into pressure-undulations and fissured by crevasses, but beyond that was apparently sound and unbroken.
The coast was a kaleidoscope of sable rocks, blue cascades, and fissured ice-falls.
The fissured cliff line is tenanted by sea-fowl, which the report of a gun brings out in screaming and hovering crowds, conspicuous among them the black and white cormorants nicknamed “Isle of Wight parsons.
The parts most rich in natural charms are the south-eastern corner, with its overgrown landslips, and the fissured chalk cliffs of the western promontory beyond Freshwater.
From the bottom of Shanklin Chine, when the tide is out, one can follow the coast round the fissured crags of Dunnose, on which a cliff-walk is always open.
All streams within the fissured zone disappeared, and the spring, which provided the drinking-water of the village, ceased to flow.
Certain belts within the fissured area contained large numbers of these craterlets, of all sizes up to twenty feet or more in diameter.
Near the 16-mile point, the ground was fissured and thrown into ridges, the rails being similarly bent in a vertical plane.
Johnston-Lavis at twenty-four places, and in every case from fissured walls.
Imagination is necessary to the man of science, and we could not reason on our present subject without the power of presenting mentally a picture of the earth's crust cracked and fissured by the forces which produced its upheaval.
Instead of a fissured crust, we have a state of things closely resembling the surface of the ocean when agitated by a storm.
In fact, the rainfall, instead of washing the surface and collecting in streams, sinks into the fissured chalk and percolates through it.
Twigs greenish or reddish, becoming smooth, dark green; thin, dark red-brown and shallowly fissured on the trunk.
The bark varies from dark red to gray and is shallowly fissured or scaly.
They are cinnamon brown on the lower surface, and much fissured and broken, on the black charcoal-like upper surface.
Their limbs and strong claws are admirably adapted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of lava, which everywhere form the coast.
The ground in many parts was fissured in north and south lines, perhaps caused by the yielding of the parallel and steep sides of this narrow island.
Behind the first rise lay a rolling, deeply fissured plateau, lined here and there with trees.
It lay at the head of a little green hollow, a wall of fissured limestones sprinkled with mosses and tufted with hartstongue fern from the midst of which the water splashed drip by drip into a shallow basin.
Their crests, which were narrow, led down toward the valley, but their sides fell in rent and fissured crags to great black hollows.
Wisps of spray whirled away from it and vanished among the scrubby firs clinging to the fissuredcrags behind.
Even old historical painters of the Netherlands, who had perhaps never in their lives seen such deeply fissured masses of rock, liked to make use of them in their backgrounds.
Therefore, whenever a porous earth or a fissured rock crops out to the light of day, there is, in ignorance of all other facts, some chance of a spring being discovered in the lowest part of the outcrop.
A fissuredrock makes a still easier channel for the water.
When subjected to long-continued erosion, the generally fissured granitic core of the laccolite weathers in a wholly different manner from the bedded sediments which surround and still in part mount over it.
Bark of old trees fissured and ridgy; odor of bruised leaves not fetid; lower lobe of corolla notched at the apex.
Medium to large sized trees with fissured bark, the ridges and furrows narrower than those of the white ash; twigs slender and glabrous at maturity; leaves generally 2-3 dm.
Medium to large sized trees with long and rather straight trunks when grown in the forest; bark dark grayish-brown, fissured and much resembling the bark of a linden or black walnut in appearance; leaves ovate, generally 1.
Medium or large trees with fissured bark similar to the white ash; twigs robust and velvety pubescent at least while young; leaves generally 2-4 dm.
Small trees with a gray and deeply fissured bark, much resembling that of a young sweet gum tree; twigs and branchlets greenish and smooth; leaves alternate, on petioles about a cm.
Medium to large sized trees; bark of old trunks fissured and peeling off in strips; spines on trunk large and often much branched, sometimes 4 dm.
The bark of small trees is smooth or rough, becomingfissured on old trees, tight or on very old trees sometimes the ridges loosen on one edge and turn outward.
Their limbs and strong claws are admirably adapted for crawling over the rugged and fissured masses of lava which everywhere form the coast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fissured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cleft; cloven; cracked; cut; gaping; rent; rift; slit; split
