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

Because the area had no natural rock outcrops, any large stones found there would have had to arrive from somewhere else, potentially carried by glaciers.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Japanese defense planners are also looking east, to the country’s Pacific side, where a jumble of tiny Japanese islands and outcrops lie more or less undefended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

A quick stroll upstream, a group of DJs unaffiliated with the family-friendly festival hosted a day party aimed at Gen Z and millennial attendees, perched on one of the channel’s outcrops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Nationalist sentiment is also growing in the Philippines, as its dispute with China over reefs and outcrops in the South China Sea continue to fester.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024

Here among these blackened granite outcrops General Fremont made his stand against a Mexican army, and defeated it.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

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 B. M. Bower

Several new varieties of thorn outcropped in Elvira’s daily walk.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

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

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

The Sunshine mine dates back to 1884, when two homesteading brothers spotted an outcropping and staked claim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary — as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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

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

Even as the darkness became so complete that trees and rocks became not objects but mere shadows, he climbed, until finally he reached the stone outcropping.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green