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Great Rift

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Great Rift [′grāt ′rift]
(astronomy)
An apparent break in the Milky Way between Cygnus and Sagittarius caused by a series of large, dark overlapping clouds about 100 parsecs (2×1015miles or 3×1015kilometers) distant in the equatorial plane of the Galaxy.
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Clambering here and there among the boulders they kept steadily on, gradually rising higher and higher until finally they came to a great rift in a part of the mountain, where the rock seemed to have split in two and left high walls on either side.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Now we had come to a spot where there is a great rift of black rock, and the name of that rift is U'Donga-lu-ka- Tatiyana.
Nada The Lily by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
At a little distance stood a wooden church, black with age, and in a dismal state of ruin and decay, with broken windows, a great rift through the main body of the edifice, and a rafter dangling from the top of the square tower.
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