[
UK
/ˈaʊtkɹɒp/
]
VERB
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appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground
Big boulders outcropped
NOUN
- the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land
How To Use outcrop In A Sentence
- It has full-size trees, sand banks leading down to a stony beach, and water cascading down a rock outcrop.
- Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
- Topographic and geological maps are the next stop to identify likely areas based on physical features such as sinkholes, known outcrops of cave forming rocks, and known cave locations.
- Situated on an elevated rock outcropping 15 km from Kurdjali, it has been regarded as a sacred site for thousands of years.
- A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
- Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, which sits on a volcanic outcrop overlooking the North Sea, was in joint eighth place.
- Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness. 2008 June : Scrubbles.net
- We searched other major valleys sporting outcrops of the same volcanically derived sedimentary rocks, which are exposed across thousands of square kilometers of mountainous terrain.
- “The baobab is a most wonderful tree,” he chuckled, settling back against an outcropping of rock. Giants of the Bushveld
- Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather. Times, Sunday Times
