outcrop

Example Sentences

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Using this information, the AI identified important surface features such as bedrock, outcrops, boulder fields, and sand ripples.

From Science Daily

There were shrubs clinging to the surface, and birds perched on occasional outcrops—crows, a nest of sand martins, and a flock of four silver-gray hawklike birds Christopher had never seen before.

From Literature

"But until we can actually get to these large outcroppings with the rover, these small rocks are our only on-the-ground evidence for how these rocks could have formed," Horgan said.

From Science Daily

Literally the answer must be no: Any stories they tell are scientific interpretations of minerals, fossils, isotopes and other features, whether from a geology laboratory or rock outcrop.

From The Wall Street Journal

It appeared to have been fed by a stream from a outcrop uphill, and archaeologists believe it may have been a water cistern to store fresh water.

From BBC