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• We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.From the entry heady
• When the baserock appears at the surface, it is called a rock outcrop.2008, Ikuo Towhata, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, page 104. From the entry baserock
• Above the tree limit, alpine pastures and bare rock outcrops dominate the landscape.1998, Harry Blijenberg, Rolling Stones?: Triggering and Frequency of Hillslope Debris Flows in the Bachelard Valley, Southern French Alps…. From the entry adret
• The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).1998 May 8, Stanley R. Hart, Jerzy Blusztajn, “Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity”, in…. From the entry pallial
• Such outcrops of younger rock, entirely surrounded by older beds, are called outliers or onliers.1997, Ruud Weijermars, Structural Geology and Map Interpretation, page 80. From the entry onlier
• A little higher is an outcrop of epidote schist with quartz, carbonate, and magnetite.1915, George Curtis Martin, Bertrand Leroy Johnson, Ulysses Sherman Grant, “Bulletin 587: Geology and Mineral Resources of Kenai…. From the entry epidote
• They are to be seen projecting in relief from the outcrops and shoaded on the surface.1911, Sir Douglas Mawson, Walter Howchin, Chiastolites from Bimbowrie, South Australia, page 196. From the entry shoad
• This strategic outcrop is home to a handful of derelict buildings once used to house US military personnel.2018 November 29, Mat Youkee, “Panama the new flashpoint in China's growing presence in Latin America”, in The Guardian. From the entry flash point
• Several outcrops were originally pegged in the hope that the shoaded black mineral would prove to be tin ore.2013, Arthur John Gaskin, H. R. Samson, Ceramic and Refractory Clays of South Australia, page 7. From the entry shoad
• And he was one of the later outcrops of mod.2012, Fred Perry Presents Subculture. From the entry soulboy
• To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes.2007 June 24, Arthur Lubow, “The Possessed”, in The New York Times. From the entry inca
• Additional outcrops were investigated south and west of Hotan.2003, Revue de Paléobiologie, volume 22, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 482. From the entry Langru
• Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars.2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138. From the entry lahar
• Three newly listed species are granite outcrop endemics.1990 May, Thomas S. Patrick, “Recent additions to Georgia's protected plant list”, in Tipularia, volume 5, Georgia Botanical Society, page 9. From the entry pool sprite
• But a narrow spur of rocks arched out and over the hole, ending in an outcrop perhaps a hundred feet across.1986, Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, published 2022, page 121. From the entry spur
• It is a desert region with rocky outcrops, dry ravines, rock and gravel desert plains, and saline flats.1986, W G Harvey, “A Taste of Karamay”, in Oriental Bird Club Bulletin, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8. From the entry Karamay
• The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 49. From the entry but
• Proposed size types for crotovines and palaeoburrows found in the Pliocene to Holocene outcrops of south a merica according to their maximal transverse diameters.2016, Marcos Cenizo, Esteban Soibelzon, Mariano Magnussen Saffer, “Mammalian predator–prey relationships and reoccupation of burrows in…. From the entry palaeoburrow
• From the north, the road into Nigeria’s purpose-built capital is strewn with inselbergs, vast monolithic stone outcrops that rise abruptly out of the lush savannah.2015 July 24, William Wallis, “What is next for Nigeria?”, in Financial Times. From the entry inselberg
• As far as can be determined, all of the Spratly Islands are capped by active coral reef and there are no other rock outcrops.2010 October 9, Charles S. Hutchison, V.R. Vijayan, “What are the Spratly Islands?”, in Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, volume 39, number…. From the entry Spratly Islands
• In the Middle Ages, when fields in the Norfolk chalk and Oxford clay outcrops of England were ploughed, they would appear after a thunderstorm.2007 February 12, “Fossils: myths, mystery and magic”, in Belfast Telegraph, page 1. From the entry devil's finger
• All along the highest parts of the ravine there are outcrops of rose root, stumpy-leaved and topped with the first showing of distinctive flat golden flowers.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 85. From the entry roseroot
• They have been turned into parallel sausages, telling you that the whole outcrop of rock must have been extended – stretched plastically on some kind of tectonic rack.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 85. From the entry plastically
• A jagged but platformish outcrop of rock just offshore made landing there feasible when Sydney Bay's prevailing winds prevented any thought of landing across the reef.2001, Colleen McCullough, Morgan's Run, page 625. From the entry platformish
• A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory.1998, Richard Gough, David Williams, Ric Allsopp, Performance Research: On Place. From the entry undertow
• The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub.1974, Anthony Sillery, Botswana: A Short Political History, page 5. From the entry sandbelt

Meaning of outcrop

1. noun A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
2. noun A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
3. noun The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.

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How do you use outcrop in a sentence?

Outcrop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.”

What is a short sentence with outcrop?

“Three newly listed species are granite outcrop endemics.”

What does outcrop mean?

Outcrop means a piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.