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Definition of Outcropping
1. Noun. The part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land.
Specialized synonyms: Belay, Outthrust
Generic synonyms: Rock, Stone
Derivative terms: Outcrop, Outcrop
Definition of Outcropping
1. Noun. An outcrop. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outcropping
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outcropping
Literary usage of Outcropping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based by Charles Baudouin (1922)
"... THREE EDUCATION OB1 THE outcropping: COLLECTEDNESS FROM what has gone before,
it may at once be inferred that the education of the outcropping will make ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"In place of delving here and there, these quarrymen opened a quarry along the
outcropping quartzite and worked it into the bluff, or dug a hole deep enough ..."
3. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"... on the Shapes of outcropping Dikes, Sills, and Contacts.—The influence of
topography upon the form of outcrop surfaces and layers is most conveniently ..."
4. Vermont Beautiful by Wallace Nutting (1922)
"The outcropping ledges form seats, an occasional isolated tree adds to the charm,
while the herds of Jerseys or Holsteins moving across the downs give ..."
5. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1880)
"As will hereafter be seen by the perusal of the detailed descriptions, one of
the most marked and common forms of the outcropping ledges, consists of a ..."
6. A Historical Sketch of the Congregational Churches in Massachusetts: From by Joseph Sylvester Clark, Congregational Board of Publication (1858)
"outcropping of Uni-' tarianism. — Probable reason why the Unitarian controversy
did not then break forth. AT the close of 1760, where the last chapter left ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Tertiary rocks (19a, 6, c) underlie all Tidewater (tho new Virginia of geology,
though the old ono of colonial history),—tho Lower or Eoceno outcropping, ..."
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