How To Use Outcrop In A Sentence
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It has full-size trees, sand banks leading down to a stony beach, and water cascading down a rock outcrop.
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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
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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.
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Situated on an elevated rock outcropping 15 km from Kurdjali, it has been regarded as a sacred site for thousands of years.
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A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
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Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, which sits on a volcanic outcrop overlooking the North Sea, was in joint eighth place.
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Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness.
2008 June : Scrubbles.net
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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.
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“The baobab is a most wonderful tree,” he chuckled, settling back against an outcropping of rock.
Giants of the Bushveld
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Falkland Islands fur seal perches on a rock outcrop off New Island, where seafood-rich waters nourish a wildlife population diverse in nature and often astonishing in number.
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On my fourth dive of the week, I rounded an outcrop at about 22m to be greeted by a view of a series of rocky pinnacles covered in gorgonians bathed in the rubescent sunlight of a late-autumn afternoon.
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Situated on an elevated rock outcropping 15 km from Kurdjali, it has been regarded as a sacred site for thousands of years.
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However, quarry outcrops of mainly white halitic mylonites display isoclinal folds that suggest a more impressive past.
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Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.
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Must we really clamber up every alluvial fan, map every desert canyon, and slap a name on every dry lake and rocky outcropping?
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He leaped onto an outcropping that was surrounded by deep pools of briny water.
End of Time
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The landscape of coastal Massachusetts is a mixture of wooded uplands, rocky outcrops, and long, low meadows that sweep down to the sea.
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Back tire slurping and bouncing wildly, I kept going, finally slithering to a halt when I saw Jeff and Joe crouched under a rock outcropping.
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Interesting, Orphan thought as she sidled around the corner of her hovel to the stone outcropping that crowned the Oracle's cavern.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Iron, copper, and coal were originally mined from outcroppings at or near the earth's surface, and gold was panned in streams.
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He scrambled against the outcropping, his feet slipping, his arms burning with stress as he fumbled to keep himself from falling.
Earl of Durkness
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After a quarter mile, we turn off into a steep hillside broken by blocky outcrops of granite interspersed with snowfields and patches of green.
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Sited on a sandstone outcrop, Nottingham Castle was rebuilt as a duke's mansion in the 1670s after the original structure had been destroyed during the English Civil War.
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The Park consists of a lateritic peneplain, with rock outcrops of quartz, schists and gneisses.
'W' National Park, Niger
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It has full-size trees, sand banks leading down to a stony beach, and water cascading down a rock outcrop.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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I zoom round the other divers seeking good camera angles, lining up divers with outcrops of coral and sponges, then flitting on to catch shoals of grunts and jacks and all the usual reef fish.
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The composition of these minerals is known from a handful of outcrops containing inclusions of mantle material.
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From there a path twists its way through outcropping crags and tiny lochans to the summit, perched precariously on top of its own little crag.
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Between the outcrop and me was a thick snow bank, and this was very steeply inclined.
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Neruda called the site "high city of laddered stone / finally resident of what is earthly" in perhaps his fine poem, "Alturos de Macchu Picchu." 140 stone structures comprise the site, along with terraced outcroppings for farming irrigated by an intricate system of fountains and aqueducts fed by underground springs.
Meg Waite Clayton: Exploring Machu Picchu 100 Years After Hiram Bingham
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One morning I snuck up on a couple, keeping a big rock outcropping between myself and them, and when I came around the rock to find them, there was only one there.
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After a steep climb, I came to a little outcropping with a Japanese elder sitting on the ground.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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The landscape of coastal Massachusetts is a mixture of wooded uplands, rocky outcrops, and long, low meadows that sweep down to the sea.
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The mother's fatal jump was witnessed by holidaymakers visiting the rocky outcrop.
Times, Sunday Times
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In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare.
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Reaching a dripping outcropping of rock, he retraced his steps, his decision made.
Earl of Durkness
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Wild heath, forest and rocky outcrops present more than enough challenges for an active walker.
The Sun
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The depression between the ancient northern highland and the southern mountains climbed upward toward a wild landscape that outcropped in rugged crags.
The Plains of Passage
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As a boy, he loved to explore the teeming streets of Manhattan and South Bronx, checking out street excavations and rock outcrops in public parks for minerals.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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The present-day areal extent of the province is highly asymmetric with most of the outcrop preserved today in the Parana basin, on the South American continent.
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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A visit to the Island would never be complete without a trip to The Needles - that jagged outcrop of brilliant white rock at the toe of the island.
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After half an hour we stopped on a rocky outcrop and listened to the distant territorial rumble of a lion.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the way we stopped to dive a rock outcrop that broke the surface a few hundred metres from shore.
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Why wasn't the granite washed clean like the rock outcrops we see jutting into the sea at the coast?
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At the very entrance of the cave there is a mammoth rock outcropping with a huge footprint.
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Then a buttery glow leaking from horizon to horizon, flooding the mesas and outcrop rock of the high desert.
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Similar stratal geometries have been described from comparable levels in the Chalk of the North Sea, and in outcrop in Britain and France.
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What the scientists can do - and have done - is unite the in-focus elements of each picture in the series and create anaglyphs that present a three-dimensional view of the outcrop and the terrain of the crater floor.
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Although variations in relief on the rocky outcrops provide a myriad of microhabitats, habitat preference of these geophytes is dependent upon the mat species.
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It is underlain by schist, phyllite, and quartzite, although outcrops of serpentine are common in the area.
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Fields curve around jumbled outcroppings, huge chunks of fragmented rock appearing in time to halt a tractor before it barely reaches working speed.
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We move like an underwater runner from the dark and spiry pine forests of the base past the timberline to the snow-dusted, rocky outcroppings of the seven-thousand-foot shoulder.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland
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Surrounding this lowlying area are ‘horsts’ of Palaeozoic rocks, and outcrops of Triassic conglomerates that drain into the basins of the Trent, Warwickshire Avon and the Severn.
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These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.
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Gabbro Rock outcrops were scattered throughout the preserve but were not mapped because of their small area.
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Out of the corner of his eye he could see her elbow resting against the outcropped pin of the frag grenade buried in the wall.
Floating City
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Paleocene fossil outcrops abound in the glauconite rich gray clay substrata of the creek banks exposed beneath the deep rich surface soils.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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Avoid the rocky outcrops, and when you reach approximately the 550-metre contour line, bear round to the east and then the north-east until you arrive at the steep slope which leads onto the wide summit ridge.
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Raohe granites mainly distribute in northeast part of Raohe area with two big outcrops: Hamahe terrene and Taipingcun terrene.
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The exemplary high scaler was twenty-three-year-old Louis Fagan, a “human pendulum” so dubbed by the Las Vegas Age whose signature feat was to have transferred every member of a tunnel crew around an outcropping on the Arizona cliffside twice a day for three weeks in January 1932.
Colossus
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I make the dash, fin downward against an upwelling, and quickly get into position behind another large outcrop of rock.
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Apart from the odd natural cove, jagged cliff faces and outcrops of rock abound.
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After witnessing this process, we visited the mine itself, which outcropped near the apex of the hill, about a thousand feet above the furnaces.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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He got up and Jim followed to the Peak Rock, a granite outcrop where they could watch the mailboat inch its way.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Those Romans' stolid inclination towards straight lines meant that if a topographical outcrop loomed in their way, they simply built up and over it.
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Metabasic rocks throughout the Moine outcrop display a tholeiitic chemistry comparable with modern mid-ocean basalts.
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Coral outcrops and pinnacles are home to moray eels, scorpionfish and blue-spotted rays.
Globe and Mail
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After having to unstrap to walk over a rocky outcrop we arrived at the top of the next slope, which was fairly steep, and littered with rock debris.
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In the xerophilous grasslands there are shallow soils and abundant outcrops of limestone rock.
Paraguana xeric scrub
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The entrance gate was expertly hidden from the main path by a rock outcropping in the slope of the mountain.
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A thrust fault with a hade of 30 degrees, showing cliffs due to harder strata outcropping on the downthrow.
The Elements of Geology
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But a storm blows up and the pair end up stranded on a remote outcrop - where love blossoms.
The Sun
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He became inspired by a huge outcrop of flat farmland at the point where the Pacific fault line crosses the upper valley.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new warden is being sought for a rugged outcrop of rock off the coast of South Wales.
Times, Sunday Times
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Native populations are found in loam or clay depressions containing moderately saline soils and a temporary water-table, and also on outcrops of gypso-saline marls.
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Their son would grow up on this craggy outcrop they called home and become an experienced fowler, cragsman and crofter.
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Noticing another mineral outcropping about the same size as the one his team was hiding behind, the Captain quickly made a plan.
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The highest of the bluffs, on the west side of the canyon, were part of a massive geological formation in west Texas called the “caprock,” essentially a long seam of rock that underlies the Llano Estacado and becomes an outcropping just at the point where the high plains give way to the lower, rolling plains.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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There is a rose garden dotted with pink, red and yellow roses, as well as an outcrop of red sandstone which enjoys a commanding view.
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Although there are no outcrops of Devonian extrusive volcanic rocks in NW Scotland, they can be found in southern and central Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
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The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops.
The Sun
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Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers.
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Inselbergs are rock outcrops, several tens to several hundreds of metres high, emerging from savannas or rain forests.
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Many will wish, but relatively few will make the trip to the tiny principality perched on an outcrop of rock facing the Mediterranean.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the surface of the rocks numerous holes and indentations are found, which after rain, hold water, and besides these, around the foot of the outcrops, "soaks," or shallow wells, are to be found.
Spinifex and Sand
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After half an hour we stopped on a rocky outcrop and listened to the distant territorial rumble of a lion.
Times, Sunday Times
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The geologist records this by marking on a map the dip and strike of the beds wherever they outcrop.
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Although they seem barren, the flat rock outcrops, known as pavement rock, support some lichens and mosses.
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Sitting up, he scooted backward, pulling her with him, until they reached flatter ground and another outcropping of rocks.
At Hidden Falls
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He leaped onto an outcropping that was surrounded by deep pools of briny water.
End of Time
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Next morning brings the first unclouded view of the Hound's Tooth, the aptly named rock outcrop framed by the lodge's windows.
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The only way to reach the site is over a scenic rocky outcrop that just happens to be a favourite spot for German naturists.
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The steep contacts and elongate outcrops of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous complexes do not, therefore, rule out gently dipping, tabular form per se.
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The lower part of the section consists of natural outcrops at the hillside, whereas the higher, more fossiliferous strata are exposed by artificial trenches.
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Plants that grow on rock outcrops are less threatened than other ericoid thicket species because the rocky areas block the local passage of fire.
Madagascar ericoid thickets
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Alternatively, the coarser grain-sized intrusions seen at outcrop may be testimony to high flow velocities during fluidization and injection, with any finer-grained sand or silt having been elutriated from the system.
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Vacant gaps on the slopes are filled with deep blue-green clumps of vegetation and sculpted sandstone outcroppings jut from the ridge line in a continuation of the sea floor's tilt.
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Manhattan Island is a low outcrop of gneiss and mica-schist, sloping from an irregular, but practically continuous crest, to the Hudson and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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However, in the northeastern area of the outcrop, only the lowermost 0-2 m consist of calcareous sandstone, with oolites, biothermal limestones and crinoidal limestones characterizing the remainder.
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Now it's largely deserted except for sheep clinging to rocky outcrops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bedrock outcrops are common, and maximum elevation reaches about 490 meters (m) above sea level (asl).
Northern Canadian Shield taiga
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Just off the road, the Aztec sandstone outcrops at Redstone Picnic Area are actually petrified sand dunes.
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Just picture those National Geographic locations where endless deserted sugar sand beaches, severed by rocky outcrops, fall into the nutrient rich bounteous waters of the Cortez sea of dreams and the mighty Pacific Ocean.
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Although the floor in the south part of the room was eroded, a fragmentary hydria and krater found among the artifacts lying against the bedrock outcrop may originally have been sitting directly on the floor.
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In Cherokee the hematite ores outcrop in immense quantities along the Hiawassee and Valley rivers, and, when wrought in the commonest county bloomeries, have yielded an astonishing per cent.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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After the child goes missing, time-lapse photography depicts the clouds rapidly rolling in and nestling on the horizon above the rocky outcrops.
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These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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Rocky outcrops of basalt lava dot the landscape, which climbs gently from 1,200 feet to peaks nearly 5,000 feet high.
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The site is perched on the edge of a small cliff looking out over a rocky outcrop, the sea and a secluded cove.
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He didn't care for the preservation of peasant songs in this far-flung outcrop of Europe: four ducats a song, however, he could not refuse.
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Note the rounded boulders in the fluvial sediments, and the mixing of gypsiferous and quartzose lithologies at places on the outcrop.
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He says that he has discovered the whereabouts of the big ship, floating in Arctic waters, within close proximity of rocky outcrops in an area of sea where the international law of ‘finders keepers’ operates.
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I had my tripod set up on a rock outcropping in the direction of the wind.
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This was spanned by two steel-wire carrying cables, secured above by "dead men" sunk in the soil, and below by a turn around a huge rock which outcropped amongst the tussock-grass on the flat, some fifty yards from the head of the boat harbour.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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Shizzle, Manizzle, Rough and Tumble were all waiting for their mothers to come back from a hunt up on a koppie remember, that's a rocky outcrop.
Animal Planet: Making Friends
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Scattered throughout the Mojave Desert, outcrops of Proterozoic sedimentary rock make up parts of the mountain ranges that divide this region into basins.
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At the discovery outcrop, the black glass-lined effusion crater with its glassy tendrils marks the transition from subterranean fulgurite tubes to exogenic styles of formation.
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The path through an entrance pavilion (embellished by a Bertoia sculpture) opens into a magical stony garden, a fragment of desert outcrop sprouting spiny cacti and frangipani.
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The estimate is based on detailed and reliable exploration and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that are spaced closely enough for geological and grade continuity to be reasonable assumed.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Near by are two footprints carved on a rocky outcrop.
Times, Sunday Times
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On land, scientists may collect samples from rock outcrops.
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The Outer Coastal Plain was formed over the last 170-200 million years as a result of deposition and erosion and is characterized by gently rolling terrain with sandy, droughty soils with no rock outcrops and few steep slopes.
2009 March 08 « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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They found a single female octopus crawling towards a rocky outcrop.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scattered nature of the outcrop and the possibility of diachronous volcanism mean that all rocks grouped as Dokhan Volcanic Series may not be coeval.
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The outcroppings were spaced eight feet apart and at seemingly random intervals fire was being shot upward from the floor.
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Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
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On 15 September 1955, three marines and a civilian scientist from the Royal Navy's new survey ship HMS Vidal were winched from a helicopter on to a tiny, pyramid-shaped outcrop of granite sticking out of the Atlantic Ocean 240 miles west of the Orkneys.
'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock
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He said the plane had crashed on a steep rocky outcrop, and dense bush and rugged terrain was hampering efforts by police and crash investigators to reach the site.
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Fifty feet below, the cabin squats near the tumbledown outcropping of rock like a demonic toad.
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In striped shadow they were perched side by side on an outcrop of black basalt like an overturned boat.
A TIME OF WAR
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The harder beds generally form NW-facing escarpments, whereas their SE slopes merge gradually below the wide clay vales excavated along the outcrops of the Oxford Clay and other softer beds.
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After half an hour we stopped on a rocky outcrop and listened to the distant territorial rumble of a lion.
Times, Sunday Times
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After half an hour we stopped on a rocky outcrop and listened to the distant territorial rumble of a lion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Localized cataclastic deformation is common in both areas of outcrop, with millimetre-scale shatter seams containing comminuted material and rounded strained grains of quartz and feldspar.
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The Helford river estuary has a rocky foreshore of granite and shale extending as reef outcrops into the estuary.
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My den was probably a cubbyhole in some hillock or outcropping of rock.
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These characteristics of the country rock, however, are likely to be masked at the outcrop by later weathering, which superposes a kaolinic or clayey alteration.
The Economic Aspect of Geology
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A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine - grained granite.
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We drove up on a group of islanders in front of a row of weathered houses built against an outcropped rock.
Miracles, Inc.
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An outcrop of bare rocks jutting out of the hill, hewn into different shapes by eons of wind and rain, appeared like a sculpture gallery of Henry Moore.
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The flower hat jelly, a rare cold-water species with pinstriped crimson bands on its bell, lives on the outcroppings of plants and uses its lustrous tentacles to paralyze the fish it consumes.
Balletic Flowers of the Sea
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The way back seemed short, with the slope of the hill in her favour, but the path was rough, broken and rutted, and several times she stumbled on outcropped stones. chapter 2 inmates
St Peter's Finger
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Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.
The Land of Midian
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The Marlstone Rock Bed is a distinctive limestone unit that outcrops from Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast of southern England, north-eastwards to just west of Hull near the North Sea coast.
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The pace of an offensive in the desert depends to a great extent on how well the troops can overcome natural obstacles, especially barchans and solonchaks, rock outcrops covered by the enemy fire.
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They turned and then stopped in a recessed notch behind an outcropping along the wall.
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The fact that older rocks progressively outcrop on the plateau surface to the NW suggests that the tilted surface is not a dip slope.
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After half an hour we stopped on a rocky outcrop and listened to the distant territorial rumble of a lion.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are actually twin beaches here, separated by an easy-to-cross outcropping of rock.
Puerto Escondido: Mexico's hidden Oaxacan beach
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They found a single female octopus crawling towards a rocky outcrop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where rock outcropped and in the sands of bright rapid streams we looked for signs of that gold, so stressed as though it were the only salvation!
1492,
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In the hills are the nimble klipspringers which explore these hilly rocky outcrops.
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Sweet observed a male of the small arboreal species V. glauerti descend the home tree of one female and travel more than 300 yards in a straight line, through dense forest and rock outcrops, to the base of another tree.
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I'm heavily involved in all aspects of the broader project, but my own interests really lie with rocks-the aquifer system that is flowing underneath North Pond, and what kind of intraterrestrial microbes might colonize rock, inhabiting the nooks and crannies of volcanic basalt and catalyzing reactions that result in "weathering" - like what you can see on old buildings, roads and rock outcrops on the continents.
Scientific American
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The land looked like the surface of the moon now, the earth pockmarked, dotted with tiny lakes and outcropping white rock.
DESPERADOES
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`Outcroppings of quartz or feldspar - "'But it could be water, frozen pools of it shining in the sunlight!
ANTI-ICE
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We did not find the lek but discovered some beautiful natural outcrops of rock and juniper, and raced from one to the next, proclaiming each rock-and-tree arrangement more handsome than the last.
Bird Cloud
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The area features generally runnable deciduous woodland with some steep slopes and craggy outcrops and a reasonable path network.
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The calcareous outcrop area in Leeds, St. Clair County, Alabama, is a site with soils too thin to support woody arborescent vegetation and is subjected to frequent scouring from a near-by stream, keeping it in an open sunny condition.
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But there was little to eat on the deserted, rocky outcrop apart from bird eggs.
The Sun
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The subject too tends to be rendered in a formulaic way with the figure positioned centrally or slightly to one side within a rocky hollow or outcrop.
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In the rock outcropping, you notice grooves and wedge-shaped holes of varying sizes.
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At the discovery outcrop, the black glass-lined effusion crater with its glassy tendrils marks the transition from subterranean fulgurite tubes to exogenic styles of formation.
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(VTEM) surveys flown in 2008 showed that outcropping granitic plugs are marked by magnetic lows while hornfels altered zones underlie magnetic highs.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment.
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A few miles away, old Roger is taking his ease in a chair on the sunny main drag that bisects City Island, a placid outcrop of land humming gently with daytrippers and yachtsmen, the extreme eastern tip of New York City.
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The schist has been glaciated, resulting in exposed outcrop surfaces of 20-30 meters, studded with staurolite crystals.
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Now it's largely deserted except for sheep clinging to rocky outcrops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The helicopters shuddered to the ground by a jagged outcrop of rock on a road by the side of Mount William.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some decades later he is still a caver, leading extreme expeditions into the deepest caves on Earth: weeks of rappelling into the dark, swimming through narrow water tunnels, sleeping well below the surface on ledges and outcrops sometimes never before visited, and then climbing back up sheer cliffs.
First Contact
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It is unknown how many more veins that occur in this area may contain worldclass specimens because most of the land is covered with glacial till deposits and outcrops are scarce.
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Much of their ground stone came from either glacial drift or outcrops of Dakota sandstone, both sources occurring to the east of the site.
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Dumps and outcrops in the vicinity have produced hand specimens of antigorite, chrysotile, and impressive crystals of grass-green talc with snow-white dolomite.
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Getting up Mt. Gudmundson didn't look so easy as there was a very steep ice and snow bank forming a razorback up to the rocky outcrops.
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Wild heath, forest and rocky outcrops present more than enough challenges for an active walker.
The Sun
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The mountains show a relief with extensive outcropping of Precambrian, acidic rocks.
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Just this summer, the park's forest ecologist discovered a 278 - year-old pignut hickory growing on a rock outcrop.
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Xenoliths, which are pieces of wall rock, or xenocrysts, which are single mineral grains that originate from xenoliths, can commonly be recognized at outcrops of magmatic rocks.
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Steller sea lions lumber around the rock outcropping, while others lie still, looking like so many long sandbags.
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The schist has been glaciated, resulting in exposed outcrop surfaces of 20-30 meters, studded with staurolite crystals.
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The first cave is down by the grass, a big outcrop of rock cut below to an arched tunnel with a chimney through the top.
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On the Witwatersrand the gold-bearing rock was discovered in outcrops on the surface, but within a few years it became clear that the deposits followed reefs deep underground sloping to the south.
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Cobbles of coal may be seen in the water showing the location of outcropping seams.
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Coral outcrops in Bida Nai gave refuge to a large river of yellow snappers and glassy sweepers; I managed to photograph a beautiful pair of blue-lined groupers and blue-ringed angelfish.
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Although there are no outcrops of Devonian extrusive volcanic rocks in NW Scotland, they can be found in southern and central Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
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`Outcroppings of quartz or feldspar - "'But it could be water, frozen pools of it shining in the sunlight!
ANTI-ICE
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The paucity of outcrop in the Acraman depression indicates that the bedrock beneath the depression is strongly disrupted by brecciation and jointing.
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Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.
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The URSEIS seismic profile images the 2D crustal profile from the surface outcrop of the Dzhabyk batholith to the upper mantle.
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Angel managed to find an outcropping of stone to protect her from the piercing, howling wind.
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Wild heath, forest and rocky outcrops present more than enough challenges for an active walker.
The Sun
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Additionally, coal was mined from mesa outcroppings, requiring unprecedented coordination.
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However, upland soils are often thin, rocky, and droughty in the vicinity of limestone outcrops.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
