outcrop
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The Nanushuk Formation is an outcropped layer of sedimentary rock 800 to 5,000 feet thick across the central and western North Slope.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Several new varieties of thorn outcropped in Elvira’s daily walk.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various
Here and there the rough rock outcropped and was broken, no doubt, by the winds of that tempestuous sea or by the frosts.
From Hurricane Island by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson
It had manifested itself where a stratum of clean white sand, underlaid with clay, outcropped at the foot of a high bank.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
To the right and half-way down was a ten-foot ledge, and below that outcropped a steep bank of earth.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
