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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

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 Bower, B. M.

At times they were entirely hidden by the luxuriant growths, and at times they came out on little bald spots where rock outcropped to the exclusion of vegetation.

From The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier by Sherman, V. T.

Where rock outcropped and in the sands of bright rapid streams we looked for signs of that gold, so stressed as though it were the only salvation!

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

Strange's notes were incomplete; and although Thirlwell calculated that he was about thirty miles from the spot where the ore outcropped, he had found none of the landmarks.

From The Lure of the North by Bindloss, Harold