But unlike fissured rock it would not hold the weight of one person, let alone three.

It was not ships, it was split and fissured rock.

Amid the fissured rock, I come across a tiny lobster - only as long as my index finger.

At cruising height, the desert gives way to mountains, carved and fissured rock massifs.

Rough, fissured rock fell away in a vertical drop, and through the mists he thought he saw water below.

The jointed and fissured rock offered dozens of hand- and footholds.

In areas with fissured rock and little soil cover leaching bed clogging can sometimes be missed if channelling occurs.

She had never realized, in their careful crawling upward through the fissured rock, how high she and Spock had actually come.

The screen zoomed in on the area, a rolling flood plain below columned cliffs carved from dark, fissured rock.

There are few intrusions: an occasional fissured rock, streaks made by leaves drifting past the camera's snail-slow shutter.

Dropping his shoufa to his shoulders, the clan chief turned and loped bareheaded toward the fissured rock wall ahead.

Gradually, a portion of this fissured rock began to uplift from the ocean forming the Los Angeles Basin.

This cleft is the origin of the name of the village, and later the castle: roca fisada (fissured rock) in Catalan.

Their angled branches, with their raggedy bark and deep-green leaves, were set off by the grays and browns of the fissured rock.

The rock-haunting ringtail possum lives exclusively in rocky outcrops and prefers areas with large boulders and deeply fissured rock.

A relatively new town, its development on a rocky coastline, riddled with underground caverns and fissured rock strata was encouraged by the presence of hot natural springs.

Bruce and Grey Counties have large areas containing shallow overburden, fissured rock and highly porus soils (cobblestone and sand).

He could see dozens of hand- and footholds in the fissured rock below him, but he was reluctant to try any more rock climbing in a Kh@fflict body.

Everything is transmogrified here, he thought again and, calling to Sardonyx, bade her break off as much of the fissured rock facade as she could to expose the metal.

In the British Isles the soil is unlikely to be sedentary, ie. formed directly above the parent rock with a gradient of particles becoming fissured rock as you dig down.

In contrast, the gnarled, windblown, exquisitely drawn trees and fissured rocks of "Murch's Cove" are depicted close up, a scene striking in its observation of nature's relentless tweaking.

Groundwater in the region occurs in three broad aquifer categories: unconsolidated sediments such as sand and gravel; porous sandstones; and fractured/fissured rocks such as slate or granite.

Under the ship, next to her and over her fragments of unborn worlds-mountains, cliffs, huge fissured rocks, grey transparent clouds of dust-swam slowly past in the streams of compressed hydrogen.

There had been no need to lay down concrete or cobbles here; they had just swept away the thin soil and there, between house and buildings was a sloping stretch of fissured rock.

The fissured rocks prevent any water from percolating underground and hence most of the discharge runs off as mountain streams to join the Gundlakamma River, the largest river to arise in these hills.