outcrop

A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship is in quarantine on tiny Pitcairn Island, a volcanic outcrop in the South Pacific famously settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

During a visit in early 2025, they explored a small outcrop of rock formed in the early Cretaceous Period.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026

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 ● Jan. 16, 2026

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 ● Jan. 1, 2026

With a final yank, I scrambled from under the unconscious camel and limped on my battered knee toward the outcrop.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Rattlesnakes like to hide in complex rocky outcrops, tall grass and squirrel burrows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

A particular pressure point is a cluster of uninhabited outcrops Japan calls Senkaku and China calls Diaoyu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

As in their previous investigations, the researchers examined Ediacaran age rocks collected from drill cores and outcrops in Oman, western India, and Siberia.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

This is the latest in a string of encounters between the two countries' militaries in the region, where China's vast claims over islands and outcrops overlap with those of its neighbours.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025

Grasses colonized the gullies, the thin soils deepened, and the rock outcrops disappeared under a fresh layer of sod.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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 Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)

Forced to become an underwriter at Lloyd's he had regained prosperity before his artistic talent had outcropped.

From To Let by Galsworthy, John

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.

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.

Frequently missed, though easily accessible from Porto’s center via an antique tram line, Foz do Douro could qualify as the north’s most delightful urban outcropping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024

On May 7, Patrick Robinson took a boat out to Año Nuevo Island to survey the sea lions that come to birth on this rocky outcropping north of Monterey Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

It is a six-acre, dome-shaped outcropping that is tricky to reach and even trickier to explore.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

I manage to take cover under a stone outcropping just as the vomiting begins, and I lose my meager supper and whatever water has remained in my stomach.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins