outcrop

[US]/'aʊtkrɒp/
[UK]/ˈaʊtˌkrɑp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. exposed rock layer on the surface;
vi. to appear or protrude from a surface
Word Forms
Third Person Singularoutcrops
Pluraloutcrops
Present Participleoutcropping
Past Tenseoutcropped
Past Participleoutcropped

Phrases & Collocations

natural rock outcrop

Example Sentences

standing on a heady outcrop of rock.

Originality outcrops in the course of planning.

The Main Chromitite Seam and the Merensky Reef do not outcrop well.

So the distribution and the content of conglomerate were different, and its geological phenomenon in the data of drilling, outcrop, logging and seismal section in different area.

This site offers images from the tropics e.g. pictures of soil profiles: aridisol in Peru, vertisol in Kenya, alfisol in Nigeria, mollisol in Thailand, spodosol in Brazil, laterite outcrops etc.

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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