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Fissure meaning
A long, narrow crack or opening made by breaking or splitting, especially in rock or earth. | A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ. | A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.
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Based on the surface appearance, three lobes can be distinguished within the cerebellum: the anterior lobe (above the primary fissure ), the posterior lobe (below the primary fissure), and the flocculonodular lobe (below the posterior fissure).
Fissure 7 is feeding a flow that has turned south toward the coast, and at dusk the lava was cascading into the Pawaii crater, adjacent to the western margin of the fissure 6 flow that feeds one of the ocean entries.
The USGS now says there are two places where lava is ponding… between fissure 22 (the biggest spatter cone) and fissure 19 to the west.
This thermal map shows the fissure system and lava flows as of 6 am on Thursday June 14. The fountain at Fissure 8 remains active, with the lava flow entering the ocean at Kapoho.
Above a rock within the fissure.
Hole a follow-up of DT21-02 from Phase 1, targeted the mineralized Red Fissure Fault, the principal feeder of the historic Deer Trail Manto, deeper within the Redwall Limestone.
A clear fissure emerged in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday with senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam making a frontal attack on the Shiv Sena (UBT).
A fissure has developed on the A78 at a bus stop in Seamill which has been reported to roads authority Amey.
An aerial view of a large fissure that has opened up since February, damaging a Portuguese Bend putting green and home after last winter’s heavy rain in Rancho Palos Verdes on Thursday.
The red dots show approximate fissure locations each of which delivered some heat overnight.
But Pelosi’s public show of unity belied a simmering fissure in the Democratic Party.
Complicating that effort is a new fissure between Seoul and Washington.
Let me briefly explain the party fissure here.
Their early drag aped white stars such as Lady Gaga and Lana Del Rey, and in this sense clothing once caused a fissure not just between Al-Kadhi and their mother, but between Al-Kadhi and their cultural heritage and even race.
All this has widened the "fissure" at the top of the state, “through which the discontent and indignation of the oppressed classes can burst forth”, as Lenin wrote.
And on the eve of Timberwolves training camp, All-Star Jimmy Butler reportedly demanded to be traded, exposing the much-rumored fissure between the veteran Butler and rising stars Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins.
A new fissure opened up in Hawaii overnight, adding more danger for residents near Kilauea volcano.
A new outbreak has been reported at 6:00 pm just east of fissure 16. Lava from this latest outbreak is actively spattering and degassing but no flow has yet formed.
Another UAS image captured early this morning looks directly down into the fissure 8 cone.
A police office blocks a road near lava fissure 17 after it erupted early Sunday, May 13 2018 near Pahoa, Hawaii.