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
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
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 Harold Bindloss
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 Mary Johnston
