fissure

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Volcanoes in Iceland are capable of producing fissure eruptions that last for years or even decades, consistent with the 14 year platinum signal.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2026

Though most of the film is spent building up to this fissure, “Oh. What. Fun.” stumbles when Claire and her family separate.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025

Perhaps the fissure should bring to mind Nordic depression, or familial misadventures in communication.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

However, there has been little concern to aviation as these recent eruptions are mostly small fissure eruptions with large and slow lava flows - rather than the explosive ash eruption from Eyjafjallajökull.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

Half-way up a fissure in one of the steepest cliffs, with most of its buttons burst, the counterfeit Beast was arguing with its stomach.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White