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sub-outcrops

sub-outcrops is the plural of sub-outcrop.

Meaning of sub-outcrop

Noun

sub-outcrop (plural sub-outcrops)

  1. A rock stratum that was once exposed at an ancient erosion surface and unconformably underlies another rock stratum.
    • Beyond the eastern limit the outcrop dips below the Black Reef and Dolomite formations; but the sub-outcrop, sweeping round and striking south-east, has been traced by bore-holes for another ten or twelve miles.1917, Cuthbert Baring Horwood, The Gold Deposits of the Rand, page 160

Questions about sub-outcrops

What is sub-outcrops the plural of?
Sub-outcrops is the plural of sub-outcrop.

Words near sub-outcrops in the dictionary

  1. sub-nationals
  2. sub-optimal
  3. sub-optimalities
  4. sub-optimality
  5. sub-outcrop
  6. sub-outcrops
  7. sub-page
  8. sub-pages
  9. sub-par
  10. sub-para.
  11. sub-paragraph

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