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Definition of outcrop in English: outcropnounPlural outcrops ˈaʊtkrɒpˈaʊtˌkrɑp A rock formation that is visible on the surface. dramatic limestone outcrops Example sentencesExamples - In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare.
- The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment.
- Around 110 km north of Arming there is a series of further outcrops of Lower Cambrian rocks.
- 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.
- Traces of these explorations are still visible in the rocky outcrops on the ridge.
- The northernmost outcrops consist of Ordovician chloritic slates, phyllitic metavolcanic rocks and slatey metapelitic rocks.
- Scattered throughout the Mojave Desert, outcrops of Proterozoic sedimentary rock make up parts of the mountain ranges that divide this region into basins.
- 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.
- On land, scientists may collect samples from rock outcrops.
- 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.
- On the way we stopped to dive a rock outcrop that broke the surface a few hundred metres from shore.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vistas of mountains and valleys with interesting weathered limestone outcrops are everywhere, and there are numerous small mines.
- The round mound incorporates natural outcrops of rock.
- 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.
- Inselbergs are rock outcrops, several tens to several hundreds of metres high, emerging from savannas or rain forests.
- He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment.
- 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.
- Thus the proto-Thames once rose in the West Midlands and carried Welsh volcanic clasts southeastwards across the Middle Jurassic outcrops into the present west-east-striking valley in south Oxfordshire.
Synonyms hillock, mound, rise, hummock, hill, hump, knob, tor, tump, barrow, bank, ridge, dune, elevation, acclivity, eminence
verboutcrops, outcropped, outcropping ˈaʊtkrɒpˈaʊtˌkrɑp [no object]Appear as an outcrop. Example sentencesExamples - He spies a campfire and walks over to it; underneath a rock outcropping, two men are taking refuge from the rain.
- The walls of the passage were solid and rough, hewn from the granite outcropping upon which the Citadel stood.
- At the camp's lowest point, a small rock outcropping serves as a storm shelter and sentry post.
- 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.
- Noticing another mineral outcropping about the same size as the one his team was hiding behind, the Captain quickly made a plan.
- Steller sea lions lumber around the rock outcropping, while others lie still, looking like so many long sandbags.
- An important hotel landmark was a large rock outcropping near the southeast corner of the building.
- It sort of felt triumphant to be crawling up this stone outcropping after getting thrown into the river the second time.
- A huge, bemused fiberglass giraffe looks down on the proceedings from a fake rock outcropping in the middle of the course.
- In the rock outcropping, you notice grooves and wedge-shaped holes of varying sizes.
- 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.
- The entrance gate was expertly hidden from the main path by a rock outcropping in the slope of the mountain.
- The next year researchers returned to the spot and found that he had simply seen a rock outcropping that looked vertical from his position.
- I immediately told members of my crew to stop what they were doing and to start hiking up the hill to our safety zone, a large rock outcropping.
- At the very entrance of the cave there is a mammoth rock outcropping with a huge footprint.
- Without warning the monolithic stone outcropping blew into a thousand fragments of flying rock.
- The fact that older rocks progressively outcrop on the plateau surface to the NW suggests that the tilted surface is not a dip slope.
- 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.
- Eventually it would have reached a weak spot in the terrain - a dip in the face, a rock outcropping - and broken off completely.
- I was just relaxing on a nice rock outcropping when all of a sudden, this thing opens right behind me.
Synonyms crag, cliff, tor, outcrop, outcropping
Derivatives noun Fifty feet below, the cabin squats near the tumbledown outcropping of rock like a demonic toad. Example sentencesExamples - In 2002, a dozen Moroccan soldiers planted a flag on Parsley Island, a small, uninhabited outcropping off the shore near Ceuta.
- I had my tripod set up on a rock outcropping in the direction of the wind.
- Just 6 m to 8 m from the lander lies an outcropping of bedrock, the first recorded on Mars.
- My den was probably a cubbyhole in some hillock or outcropping of rock.
Definition of outcrop in US English: outcropnounˈoutˌkräpˈaʊtˌkrɑp A rock formation that is visible on the surface. dramatic limestone outcrops Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment.
- On land, scientists may collect samples from rock outcrops.
- Vistas of mountains and valleys with interesting weathered limestone outcrops are everywhere, and there are numerous small mines.
- 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.
- On the way we stopped to dive a rock outcrop that broke the surface a few hundred metres from shore.
- 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.
- The round mound incorporates natural outcrops of rock.
- 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.
- Around 110 km north of Arming there is a series of further outcrops of Lower Cambrian rocks.
- The main outcrops of this rock suite underlie the two steep-sided hills of the Boesmanskop to the immediate north of the main escarpment.
- Inselbergs are rock outcrops, several tens to several hundreds of metres high, emerging from savannas or rain forests.
- Scattered throughout the Mojave Desert, outcrops of Proterozoic sedimentary rock make up parts of the mountain ranges that divide this region into basins.
- In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare.
- Traces of these explorations are still visible in the rocky outcrops on the ridge.
- Thus the proto-Thames once rose in the West Midlands and carried Welsh volcanic clasts southeastwards across the Middle Jurassic outcrops into the present west-east-striking valley in south Oxfordshire.
- 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.
- 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.
- The northernmost outcrops consist of Ordovician chloritic slates, phyllitic metavolcanic rocks and slatey metapelitic rocks.
- 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.
Synonyms hillock, mound, rise, hummock, hill, hump, knob, tor, tump, barrow, bank, ridge, dune, elevation, acclivity, eminence
verbˈoutˌkräpˈaʊtˌkrɑp [no object]often as noun outcroppingAppear as an outcrop. Example sentencesExamples - Noticing another mineral outcropping about the same size as the one his team was hiding behind, the Captain quickly made a plan.
- Steller sea lions lumber around the rock outcropping, while others lie still, looking like so many long sandbags.
- He spies a campfire and walks over to it; underneath a rock outcropping, two men are taking refuge from the rain.
- I immediately told members of my crew to stop what they were doing and to start hiking up the hill to our safety zone, a large rock outcropping.
- 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.
- I was just relaxing on a nice rock outcropping when all of a sudden, this thing opens right behind me.
- An important hotel landmark was a large rock outcropping near the southeast corner of the building.
- Without warning the monolithic stone outcropping blew into a thousand fragments of flying rock.
- The walls of the passage were solid and rough, hewn from the granite outcropping upon which the Citadel stood.
- A huge, bemused fiberglass giraffe looks down on the proceedings from a fake rock outcropping in the middle of the course.
- At the camp's lowest point, a small rock outcropping serves as a storm shelter and sentry post.
- The entrance gate was expertly hidden from the main path by a rock outcropping in the slope of the mountain.
- It sort of felt triumphant to be crawling up this stone outcropping after getting thrown into the river the second time.
- The fact that older rocks progressively outcrop on the plateau surface to the NW suggests that the tilted surface is not a dip slope.
- The next year researchers returned to the spot and found that he had simply seen a rock outcropping that looked vertical from his position.
- 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.
- Eventually it would have reached a weak spot in the terrain - a dip in the face, a rock outcropping - and broken off completely.
- In the rock outcropping, you notice grooves and wedge-shaped holes of varying sizes.
- 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.
- At the very entrance of the cave there is a mammoth rock outcropping with a huge footprint.
Synonyms crag, cliff, tor, outcrop, outcropping
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