outcrop

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1. outcrop - Noun

2. outcrop - Verb

Meaning

The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.

That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.

To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

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Stony seaboard, far and foreign, Stony hills poured over space, Stony outcrop of the Burren, Stones in every fertile place. John Betjeman

Against the outcrop boulders of a raised beach We built our house when I and my love were young. Robinson Jeffers

Big boulders outcropped Source: Internet

About 80km east of Pretoria in South Africa, near the town of Bronkhorstspruit, there's a rocky outcrop in a secluded ravine in the countryside. Source: Internet

A band of Carboniferous age rocks underlies part of the northern plain but is nowhere seen at the surface however similar age rocks do outcrop in the south between Castletown, Silverdale and Port St Mary. Source: Internet

An eroded outcrop at Siccar Point showing sloping red sandstone above vertical greywacke was sketched by Sir James Hall in 1788. Source: Internet

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