outcropping
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Somehow, creaky tiled houses have been wedged here between enormous outcroppings of glacial boulders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
"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 • Jan. 27, 2026
Winding past Gold Rush-era towns, forests and rocky outcroppings, the elevation soon rises to 3,000 feet, 4,000 feet and finally 5,000 feet.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2024
Chinese and Philippine ships clashed last year as disputes over shoals and other outcroppings in the South China Sea flared.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024
They avoided the stone farmhouses on rock outcroppings by walking in irrigation ditches.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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