outcrop
Example Sentences
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The company is now training modern exploration techniques on outcroppings of a 1.8-billion-year-old type of metamorphic rock called Pinto gneiss.
From Los Angeles Times
Somehow, creaky tiled houses have been wedged here between enormous outcroppings of glacial boulders.
Kharg Island is a small coral outcrop in the Persian Gulf, roughly 15 miles off the Iranian coast.
From Barron's
Kharg Island is a small coral outcrop in the Persian Gulf, roughly 15 miles off the Iranian coast.
From Barron's
Having driven up to Llyn Teifi in the Cambrian mountains, we stand on a bridge, surrounded by rocky outcrops and marshland.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
