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▪ I. ˈoutˌcropping, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
Mining, Geol., etc. The action or fact of cropping out; the part of a stratum that crops out: = outcrop n. a.
1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 23 A tunnel..cuts the vein..175 feet below the outcroppings. 1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. II. i. 6 An outcropping of rock had formed a bastion for the sand.
b. fig. Appearance, emergence: = outcrop n. c.
1855Maury Phys. Geog. Sea vi. §383 Here the outcroppings of the relation between magnetism and the circulation of the atmosphere again appear. 1887Athenæum 25 June 830/2 The sudden outcropping of a school of young..and promising critics.
▪ II. ˈoutˌcropping, ppl. a.
[out- 10.]
Cropping out, emerging at the surface of the ground.
1845Silliman's Amer. Jrnl. Apr. 299 Brine springs..issue, at the outcropping edges of the siliceous portion of the mass. 1885‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mount. viii, Emerging..upon a slope of outcropping ledges, where his horse left no hoof-print. |