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Definition of Fissuring
1. fissure [v] - See also: fissure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissuring
Literary usage of Fissuring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Land Drainage by Joseph Alexander Jeffery (1916)
"Injury to roots by fissuring. — When fissuring or cracking occurs in soils or
subsoils already ... Crops, therefore, may suffer greatly from soil fissuring. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1896)
"The Form of Fissure-Walls, as Affected by Sub- fissuring, and by the Flow of Rocks.
BY WILLIAM GLENN, BALTIMORE, MD, (Atlanta Meeting, October, 1895. ..."
3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Benny took his knife, and Ed-Fred-George coaxed Clarence into a slow, deep fissuring.
They dragged the body into the earthy crack and Clarence swallowed up ..."
4. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Shape and Relation to fissuring.—At the high temperatures and pressures at which
contact-metamorphic deposits are formed, ..."
5. The Principles of Economic Geology by William Harvey Emmons (1918)
"Shape and Relation to fissuring.—At the high temperatures and pressures at which
contact-metamorphic deposits are formed, ..."
6. General Economic Geology: A Textbook by William Harvey Emmons (1922)
"... Influence of Rock Structure on fissuring.—In some districts fissures show a
strong tendency to follow bedding planes, planes of schistosity, ..."
7. Geology of Western Ore Deposits by Arthur Lakes (1905)
"fissuring. The vein, being a healed wound in the rocks, is a line of weakness
particularly subject to attack, movement, re-opening or ..."
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