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Examples of outcropping
outcropping
As we round an outcropping, we spy a group of ten birds, all sporting red heads.
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The waves carried in as far as the rock outcropping on the Corona del Mar beach.
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While they were working on the outcropping, a chunk of it split off the main block.
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The only other outcropping of rocks that are about as old occur in western Greenland.
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He had found one of the ladles himself, tucked into a rocky outcropping in New Mexico.
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Around 1837 local blacksmith James Woolfolk found an outcropping of coal on his land.
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The area in question is a prominent outcropping known as Sunrise Rock.
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An outcropping of mummified tree remains on Ellesmere Island in Canada.
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It lies atop a granitic gneiss outcropping at an elevation of 3,208 feet.
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- The part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
- Appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground; "Big boulders outcropped"
- An outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth.
- (OUTCROPS) A term designating the surface exposure of rock layers, which have not been decomposed into soil.
- A rock formation that protrudes through the level of the surrounding soil.
- An exposure of rock or mineral deposit that can be seen on surface, that is, not covered by soil or water.
- A place where rock is exposed at the Earth's surface and can be examined without digging
- An area of rock emerging at the ground surface.
- The area where a particular rock body reaches the surface.
