noun
definition
An outcrop.
Examples of outcropping in a Sentence
Not far from the camp, they reached a rock outcropping.
Finally they descended into a low place in the ravine, momentarily putting an outcropping between them and the Indians who waited.
He dropped the camera and peered over the edge of the cliff but the outcropping blocked his view of anything below.
The general character of the landscape in the Eastern Division is a succession of steep escarpments formed by the edges of the outcropping beds of harder rock, and long gentle slopes or plains on the dip-slopes, or on the softer layers; clay and hard rock alternating throughout the series.
A large outcropping of rock made it impossible for a climber more than just a few feet below the edge, to see anyone above him.
The magic trickled, and he glanced towards the female form in an outcropping of boulders nearby.
The eastern elevation is a ridge or cuesta formed by an outcropping hard layer of the ancient coastal plain; and it separates the Wisconsin river basin from the Fox River Valley and the streams flowing into Lake Michigan.
The geology map shows the Arley seam outcropping all along this ridge, which would be very attractive to early prospectors.
Tonopah is at the outcropping of a number of ledges which continue for several hundred feet below the surface for an unknown distance.