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An outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or geological strata that appears at the Earth's surface due to erosion or uplift. It provides geologists with valuable information about the underlying rock formations and can help understand the geological history of an area.
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What is a outcrop?
A rock outcrop is the part of a rock formation that appears above land.
What sorts of information are usually shown on geologic map?
Where rocks outcrop or would outcrop if they could be seen.
How do you use outcrop in a sentence?
We took shelter under a rock outcrop in the side of the hill as the storm approached.
What sort of information are usually shown on a geologic map?
Where rocks outcrop or would outcrop if they could be seen.
What is the outcrop of a mountain?
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What is an antonym for alcove?
encave
How do you use the word outcrop in a sentence?
The police worried that the outcrop of rock would break loose and roll down onto the highway.
What is a seven letter word for rock formation?
outcrop
The removal of detritus from weathered rock at an outcrop is termed?
erosion
Where is the world largest coral outcrop?
the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
Rocks sticking to the outside of soil?
In geology, this phenomena is known as an 'outcrop'.
What is the process by which large sheets of loosened rock break away from an outcrop?
gravity
