As it cooled, the granite was broken by closely spaced vertical fractures which lay nearly parallel in a northeasterly direction.
Some of the vertical fractures at the top of the cliff appear to be leaning, forming a striking radial pattern.
There, a gigantic vertical fracture indented the face of the escarpment, and water poured in and plunged down from three sides.
It was named so in 1958 because vertical fractures, which make up parts of the mountain, look like they are composed of giant blocks.
Both caves have large, triangular-shaped entrances, and were formed along vertical fractures.
"No." Sanner took off his helmet and turned it around in his hands, slanting it down along the wall of the vertical fracture.
This can lead to a toothache, an abscess, premature loss of the tooth, a vertical fracture, and many other problems.
It preserves much of the body of the bone, which is short and deep, but is broken along a vertical fracture behind the toothrow.
Nearly vertical fractures formed in the stone as it cooled, and uplift of the formation enhanced the fracturing.
The field consists of limestone horizon with vertical fractures that run northeast-southwest.