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outcrop

[ UK /ˈa‍ʊtkɹɒp/ ]
VERB
  1. appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground
    Big boulders outcropped
NOUN
  1. 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
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